Again, I’m picking on Scott for reasons. The same is true of every other essayist I love.
Sam Kriss at his best provides catharsis; at his worst, a sense of jaded superiority.
Ted Gioia at his best makes me fall in love with art and music as if for the first time; at his worst, like I’m part of a small culturally-literate elite in a crumbling world...
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