Maud Newton, who hopefully will forgive me for referring to her as if I actually know her, points out that Dave Eggers was unenthusiastic about Neal Pollack’s NY Times piece. Instead he writes that his hope is for a literay world "of community, of mutual support, of spirited but nonviolent discourse." What is so excellent about Maud is that she reads this as a kind of bourgeois, be-nice muzzling.
Meanwhile, bourgeois living is on the mind of Ed Champion too (hopefully he will also forgive my familiarity). He thinks that Pollack has settled into "yuppified complacency." Since I’m no longer skateboarding around the city with spraypaint in my backpack, I try not to cast the "complacent" stone. But Pollack still has some fight left in him, I’d wager.
