As beloved author John Updike said, "Better to praise and share than blame and ban." We need to relearn the skills of making criticism constructive rather than destructive, and we need look no further than the introduction to John Updike’s 1977 anthology of prose, Picked-Up Pieces, where Updike codifies the ethics and poetics of
As beloved author John Updike said, "Better to praise and share than blame and ban." We need to relearn the skills of making criticism constructive rather than destructive, and we need look no further than the introduction to John Updike’s 1977 anthology of prose, Picked-Up Pieces, where Updike codifies the ethics and poetics of criticism by offering his own set of rules to reviewing graciously and fairly. Though these rules were written with literature in mind, at their heart is a principle that applies to critique and criticism of any kind.
BrainPickings.org/ The Atlantic 5/2/2012
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