A reader's manifesto, revisited and lightly acidic.
Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping. — B. R. Meyers
In February 2006, I ordered a copy of the book A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose. Originally an essay, the author, B. R. Myers, expanded it into a tidy little book that took a swing at the grow…