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· 28/1/12 · 298 · Reblog

nickmiller:

Read my interview with Bloginity here.

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I’m really excited to read Isn’t It Pretty to Think So. So excited in fact that I won’t even read the excerpts that Nick Miller has been posting because I really am looking forward to getting my copy of the book this spring, sitting down, and reading the hell out of it. That’s how I imagine Nick Miller would have read or experienced it.

So I was also excited to read this interview: to know more about this guy that I think is doing something pretty great. Unfortunately everything about this interview seemed incredibly banal and rehearsed and perfect and blah. That’s not at all who Nick strikes me as, I mean check out that sweet picture of him using a burning page to light his cigarette? Too cool, right?

What’s not too cool is this weird person in this interview that had just the right amount of Catholic-school-suburban-upbringing mixed with a picture perfect progression of liberal-arts-school-20th-century-fixation.

Look, we all have that, we’re all that person in this generation. I am excited for this book because I think it’s a product of this common experience that says something new and interesting about it. I mean I think this book is daring. So I imagined that Nick Miller was pretty daring as well.

I don’t want to sound really harsh, I’m not leveling any claims against him or the interviewer. I am just…surprised at what I see here.

So maybe I would really like to see another interview, maybe one where he is asked his thoughts on Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad and he gives a really honest and hopefully somewhat-scathing review?

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