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jd521 's review for:
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
by Claire Dederer
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
I think the dust jacket does this book a disservice: it’s not so much seeking an answer to the question “can we love art by monstrous people?”—that answer emerges quickly; and I appreciate that the author didn’t do a tedious back and forth about it—but rather begins from the premise that we do love art made by bad people, and what does that mean for us, for our ideas of “genius”, “art”, “artist”, and more. Finally, a not-annoying engagement with and reading of Lolita. A great read, minus half a star because it felt at moments like the author was trying too hard to be funny/use colloquial speech when she clearly has brilliant insights that didn’t need to be tamped down by this weird casual comedian voice