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It is about "the same irony and the same agony" as Portnoy's Complaint --the excesses of the 1960s--but American Pastoral is "darker, difficult, more mature."
The American cult of celebrity has flourished since Walter Winchell, and the tabs have been thriving since the early '70s--but it's only in the last few years that other journalists have taken the supermarket rags seriously.