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6:53 AM
by Gene
Elsewhere in DA POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, the greatest lihterahteeste of our time, Mistah King, unburdens himself:Despite massive success, you've been criticized for years by the so-called "literary elite." Does that bother you?
It doesn't bother me. [Buries face in hands sarcastically] It bothers me if I feel like they get it wrong. It bothers me if it's a critic who doesn't have any grounding in the sort of thing I do. If some critic came along that had no understanding of popular fiction and said this is wrong and that is wrong, I'd feel the same way if a second-year algebra student came along and started to critique a college calculus proof. I'd say, "Sit down, get your facts straight, then come back and see me." That's one of the reasons why in the New York Times they have a critic who handles popular fiction, Janet Maslin, and one who handles literary fiction, Michiko Kakutani. And when Kakutani gets into popular fiction, she just seems lost. She doesn't really know what she's doing.TRANSLATION: It bothers him.