“Freddie :

Yeah. Because long after Norman Mailer has fallen into the dustbin of history, the name “Roger Kimball” will ring throughout the halls of academe.

Right?”

So what are you saying—-that no “little writer” dare criticize any “big writer”? Who makes that determination—the NYT bestseller list?

Based on your logic, no one who is not already a literary celebrity can have any valid insights. This is the kind of artistic fascism that has led us into the sorry straits in which we are now stuck.