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“When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.”

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Louis Menand is an American writer renowned for his cultural commentary and literary criticism. His writing style is characterized by incisive analysis and a sense of humor, covering a wide range of topics from history to contemporary social issues. more

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