August 1st, 2016
“I claim no moral superiority over Donald Trump.”

Huh?

June 30th, 2009
Come again?

In keeping with [author Mark] McGurl’s love of systems, diagrams dot The Program Era, a feature that some early reviewers have found off-putting. Charles McGrath did some eye-rolling in an early, unkind review for The New York Times in which he likened writing programs to Ponzi schemes and chastised McGurl for cluttering his prose with academic jargon — which hardly seems fair, given that The Program Era is a scholarly book, published by a university press and intended for an academic audience.

So if a book’s intended for an academic audience, it’s supposed to have prose cluttered with academic jargon?

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