http://spleenville.com/journal/archives/005210.php Crooked Timber provides the valuable service of, among other things, being a sort of clearing house for all the sphere o' blogs' snobs to get together and dis whatever is the chatterati's bugbear du jour. This being that time of... en-us http://www.elevendayempire.com/movabletype/archives/006246.html Except for some people, who don't believe that. Lynn Sislo points out such an example, which showed up in the http://captainyips.typepad.com/journal/2003/12/whats_a_book.html Andrea (whose newest site design is suspiciously cheerful. A ruse, no doubt) mentions a revival of the "if I don't like it, it's not literature," madness. I'm not going to get involved in that futile discussion. We haven't settled it http://www.farmaccidentdigest.com/digest/01220.php recently wrote a post touching on a type of people that really annoy me. These are those who cannot dislike something just be because they don\'t like it or it is not t]]> http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/005584.html No, seriously, I never did. On the other hand, I don't hold it against people who did like it. What annoys me a good bit... http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com/nfff/2003/11/andrea_harris_o.html Andrea Harris has written a cognent criticism of the current academic standing of The Lord of the Rings as literature. In brief, she isn't very impressed with either the current quality of literary criticism being bandied about, nor with the