{"id":291616,"date":"2012-09-10T18:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/09\/10\/three-percent-45-1\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:06","slug":"three-percent-45-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/09\/10\/three-percent-45-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #45: +1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast features freelance book critic Jacob Silverman, who stirred up a lot of discussion last month when Slate published his piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2012\/08\/writers_and_readers_on_twitter_and_tumblr_we_need_more_criticism_less_liking_.html\">Against Enthusiasm<\/a> about &#8220;the epidemic of niceness in online book culture.&#8221; Basically, Jacob argued that online book culture has lead away from legit discussion to a series of endorsements and &#8220;+1s.&#8221; Shortly after he wrote this, William Giraldi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/19\/books\/review\/inside-and-signs-and-wonders-by-alix-ohlin.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;pagewanted=print\">trashed Alex Ohlin&#8217;s recent publications,<\/a> setting off <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/barbarachai\/harsh-book-review-sparks-strong-twitter-reaction\">another Twitter firestorm.<\/a> And of course, the day we recorded this, Giraldi published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/05\/letter-to-a-young-critic-william-giraldi-defends-true-criticism.html\">long piece<\/a> in <em>The Daily Beast<\/em> explaining his beliefs about book criticism. Anyway, this week we talk about all of that . . . <\/p>\n<p>And because in today&#8217;s crazy world, calling a bad book bad will lose you a Twitter follower, this week&#8217;s song is <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_D4JJPZQ2Ic\">Grounds for Divorce<\/a> by Wolf Parade.<\/p>\n<p>As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\/id434696686\">here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/listen.googlelabs.com\/\">Listen<\/a>, copy the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=broadcast_3p\">link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast features freelance book critic Jacob Silverman, who stirred up a lot of discussion last month when Slate published his piece, &#8220;Against Enthusiasm&#8221; about &#8220;the epidemic of niceness in online book culture.&#8221; Basically, Jacob argued that online book culture has lead away from legit discussion to a series of endorsements and &#8220;+1s.&#8221; Shortly after he wrote this, William Giraldi &#8220;trashed Alex Ohlin&#8217;s recent publications&#8221; setting off &#8220;another Twitter firestorm.&#8221; And of course, the day we recorded this, Giraldi published a &#8220;long piece&#8221; explaining his beliefs about book criticism. 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