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Babbling Brooks
I'm fond of citing Albert Brooks' experience in 1985 with Lost in America because it so gorgeously encapsulates the issue.
Garth Brooks shocks the world by putting out a pop album under the fictional persona of Chris Gaines, giving himself a radical makeover complete with soul patch, eye makeup and, most startling of all, no cowboy hat: "[H]e looks a bit like Trent Reznor crossed with a guy who eats a lot of cheese steaks" (Christopher John Farley, Time ). The music, though, is anything but shocking.
In graduate school, I aspired to be Edmund Wilson ( Patriotic Gore is still the best title for an intellectual book that I have come across), Jacques Barzun, and Van Wyck Brooks.
And yet they continue to ignore the important work of Foster Brooks?