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  • It is no secret, of course, that people have strong feelings about fat - feelings that seem only to have been inflamed by the sense, in western countries, that there is an obesity crisis afoot. Concerns about health have mutated into a kind of panic attending any mention of fat people at all.
    - Michelle Dean
  • 'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.
    - Michelle Dean
  • Most people do not pay attention to the publisher's imprint on a given book.
    - Michelle Dean
  • Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.
    - Michelle Dean
  • Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.
    - Michelle Dean
  • Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.
    - Michelle Dean
  • I still think, most of the time, when people called shows like 'The Sopranos' or 'Deadwood' 'art' that they were correct.
    - Michelle Dean
  • Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the navy often took them on ships, but there they performed a function, mousing for the officers.
    - Michelle Dean
  • Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.
    - Michelle Dean