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By Pronoy Sarkar | Monday,
May 11, 2015 Off the Shelf
“This is an essay about a strain of nasty, knowing abuse
spreading like pinkeye through the national conversation—a tone of snarking
insult provoked and encouraged by the new hybrid world of print, television,
radio, and the Internet,” writes author David Denby in the opening of Snark. As the title and
opening line suggest, Snark
is about snark, the vituperative and often shallow tactic that, in the age of
the Internet, has turned our communication anemic, the schoolyard equivalent
of an irritating shoulder-prod.
Published in 2009, following the rise of Barack Obama, Snark has a very
particular mission in mind. ... READ MORE
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