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From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Mina Kim.

What ought we to do about great art made by bad men? That's a question that undergirds

Claire Deederer's new book, Monsters, a fan's dilemma, which explores whether and even how we can

love the works of people who've committed morally reprehensible acts. Woody Allen, for example,

or Bill Cosby, Dieter calls her book an autobiography of the

audience, an effort to make sense of the complicated emotions we feel when engaging with the art

of someone we used to love and now loathe.

Have you struggled to give up a film, painting, music, clothing, whatever the creation

of an artist who disappointed you?

Tell us about it after this news.

I'm Mina Kim. Welcome to Forum. In 2017, when the Me Too movement gained its foothold, Claire

Dieter wrote a piece in the Paris Review titled, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? Asking if we can continue to

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