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Phillip Maciak

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  • TV Critic, The New Republic
  • Senior Lecturer in English and American Culture Studies, Washington University
St. Louis
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TV critic @newrepublic // writing DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) // teaching @wustl // buy my book AVIDLY READS SCREEN TIME!
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Surviving With Little House on the Prairie and Lord of the Flies Original

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By Phillip Maciak Verified
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This spring, Mac Barnett, the award-winning children’s author of such contemporary picture-book classics as Sam and Dave Dig a Hole, dug himself a hole. In Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children, his new book-length work of literary criticism about children’s books, he makes a forceful argument for adults to take children seriously as readers. Their sense of taste, their sense of justice, their sense of imagination. Too many children’s books, he suggests, condescend to their readers.
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The Singular Power of Persepolis Original

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By Phillip Maciak Verified
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Teachable. The biggest compliment a college professor can give to a book or a movie is to say that it’s “teachable.” Over the years, somewhat to my dismay, this has become the main criterion I use to assess new texts, especially books. To be teachable, a book or a movie or whatever has to possess a certain set of qualities.
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What We Have Lost With The Late Show

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By Phillip Maciak Verified
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There may be a day again when TV executives have the backbone to support a show like Colbert’s. But The Late Show will be gone. I don’t know that I’ll watch Stephen Colbert’s final episode of The Late Show tonight, which will also be the final episode of The Late Show’s 33-year run on CBS. I did, however, watch David Letterman’s. Last Thursday, the enigmatic, Santa-bearded comedian emerged from retirement for one last appearance on the show he created at CBS back in 1993.
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