People are angry that Rick Moody has opined that Taylor Swift's music is ten kinds of commercial suck. Their beef is this bit: That it will not matter that we all will realize that she is terrible, "because her parents work in finance, and she has good manners, and she’s going to marry up, and she’s going to get into the movies (not just guest appearances in CSI), and she’s going to launch some clothing lines at Target (no, wait, I think she already did that), and a personal fragrance (I think she did that too), and parlay all her bad press into some self-serious complaints, making good [...]

There's this weird introduction to an essay that turns out to be the entire essay (I'm guessing this is a front-of-book Newsweek piece that's put on the Daily Beast?) by Rick Moody about Tucson. The commenters have gone, predictably, quite wild. But I'm still so stuck on how it's five paragraphs and then you think "oh that's such an interesting introduction, now you're going to shatter all these ideas with something explicit and specific" and then there's just… SHARE THIS ON FACEBOOK and comments from angry Tusconians. Oh you'll never win when writing about someone's town. And the short-form essay is a real tricky beast; this isn't [...]