David Haglund
Most Recently: No Great Work of Art Can Be "Spoiled"
David Haglund is the managing editor of PEN America and has recently written for Bookforum, Slate and The National.
No Great Work of Art Can Be "Spoiled"
Now that we've done the history of "Spoiler Alert," let's discuss appropriate and/or civically obligatory uses. READ MORE
Where Have All the Sontags Gone?
It would be easy to dismiss Lee Siegel's piece-"Where Have All the Mailers [he means Norman] Gone?") in the New York Observer this week-but what fun would that be? Siegel, writing in typically bombastic fashion, obviously intends to start an argument. His essay is essentially a lament for the disappearance of fiction from just that sort of debate: the shared (and perhaps largely imaginary) upper-middle-brow cultural conversation many of us try to engage in by reading magazines like the New Yorker and going to see certain movies, etc. I enjoy that conversation, too; so let's have at it. READ MORE
