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by Larissa MacFarquhar is a truly stupid article, whose only point is that there is a big difference between basic reading and highbrow reading.
Beck nails the highbrow vote, with Luc Sante's Village Voice musing that the music has "a texture and effect that is not far from that of the hand-painted non-collages of James Rosenquist," as well as the lowbrow vote: USA Today says it "radiates party vibes" (Edna Gundersen).
It covers every angle a young media entrepreneur could dream of: highbrow nonfiction (the first comprehensive collection of King's sermons); innovative nonfiction (a King "autobiography" cobbled together from his writings); audiotapes of King speeches; high-tech (a fancy civil-rights Web site); and even a little snack for Dexter's ego (the young man's memoirs, which are to include his thoughts on health and nutrition).
The writing is ostentatiously literary, and I expect that although a hard-core band of fans will praise The Designated Mourner for condemning the vulgarian times we live in, a larger group will think it's just more intolerable hooey from that highbrow exhibitionist.
The weekly book reviews like such highbrow biographies as Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (the New York Times Book Review ) and Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). Other reviewers fill their lists with celebrity memoirs, especially Mia Farrow's What Falls Away --a trend some critics bemoan.