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This is an interesting article that first juxtaposes positions taken by Jonathan Franzen and Ben Marcus. Both decry the decline of reading, especially in an electronic age, but while Franzen is characterized as seeking audience-friendly writing, Marcus is described as "fearlessly" on the side of difficulty and what is new in what Ozik describes as "complexity versus ease". Ozik has some choice words for the rise of the non-professional reviewers on Amazon/blog sites where any one personal opinion is a valid as the next. As she puts it:
"Amazon encourages naive and unqualified readers who look for easy prose and uplifting endings to expose their insipidities to a mass audience. It is true that one can, on occasion, find on Amazon a literate, lively, penetratingly intelligent response: an artful golden minnow in a fetid sea where both praise and blame are leveled by tsunamis of incapacity".
However, Ozik argues that the real problem is not reviewing, but "what is not happening" and that is literary criticism, especially an infrastructure of serious criticism. She continues, "Novels, however they may manifest themselves, will never be lacking. What is missing is a powerfully persuasive, and pervasive, intuition for how they are connected, what they portend in the aggregate, how they comprise and color an era". Criticism needs to explain, "both ancestrally and contemporaneously, not only how literature evolves, but how literature influences and alters the workings of human imagination".
Ozik calls for a "broad infrastructure, through a critical mass of critics, of the kind of criticism that can define, or prompt, or inspire, or at least intuit, what is happening in a culture in a given time frame". For Ozik, the template for this infrastructure requires "elasticity, history, connectedness; the visual, the tactile, the comic".