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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany loose, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

Did you wait for a blog that was about watching episodes of Sex and the City?

Oh my God. Yes, I did. That was a long time ago.

Yeah. I was... Oh, my God.

I loved it. I loved it.

That's Andrea Long Chew.

Once, one of my favorite Sex in the City bloggers, now a Pulitzer Prize winning critic. And you know what? I wasn't surprised by the news of her win in 2023. She lends her

critical eye to everything from the TV show Yellowstone to the work of Sally Rooney to pro-Palestinian

protests and free speech. And she does it with wit, style, and

fearlessness. Like, if you've ever read Andrea Longchoo, you know she is eviscerating people

in some of these pages. Andrea is here today because some of her best writing has been

collected into a book called Authority. It's a lot of her published essays and two new ones.

In this book and our conversation,

she has given me so many new ways to look at art,

from high-brow literature to low-brow TV.

But she also asks,

what kind of authority do critics have?

And do we need to rethink what criticism should do for us?

All right, here's my conversation with Andrea. Let's get critical. To get right into it,

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