Notes on Audience and Criticism, No. 1

I'm using my blog now partly as a commonplace book. Last night I came across this article or series of articles at the New York Times about why criticism matters. Since the one I read discusses in part how the Internet has changed views of audience in fiction and writing, I decided to bookmark it. Stephen Burns writes:While (Alfred) Kazin could complain in 1960 that “the audience doesn’t know