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Reviewed on August 15, 2007
Saunders, best known as a fiction writer (e.g.,CivilWarLand in Bad Decline ), uses the skills he's honed writing forThe New Yorker, GQ , andHarper's to take on politics, literature, and religion in his first essay collection. In the title piece, he discusses the many ways in which the media have become a "braindead megaphone." He compares on-air coverage of celebrity news ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More