Granby College had, at great expense and with enormous fanfare, hired away from Oxford this British professor of English Literature named Michael Mintz.
You maybe have seen this guy on Fox News. They love him there. He’s got long hair and he always wears a scarf, and he’s very pretty. His big idea, the idea that got him so much attention, is free market criticism.
Basically, he doesn’t believe in literary merit or anything like that. According to him, the only way to judge a book, or any work of art, is by how popular it is. “Any other method,” he says, “is nothing more than elitism.”
From Steve Hely’s very funny novel How I Became a Famous Novelist
I figure this is sort of apropos of my earlier post on the Oscars and the NBA.
(Okay, back to the neverending Michael Jackson posts.)
