Naomi Wolf publishes an article seemingly destined to score a “surefire, indignant bang of contemporary succ?s de scandale” about being the subject of an alleged pass from Prof. Harold Bloom twenty years ago. The expected reactions, however, are not forthcoming. “I keep a close watch on my cultural windmills, and I can tell you categorically that a few years ago, this story would have had them spinning furiously, unanimously, in favor of Wolf.” But a cultural moment seems to have passed, and with it the old inquisitorial spirit once automatically triggered by harassment charges. “Wolf appears now like a helpless vendor trying to peddle a Semper Augustus tulip bulb in Rotterdam circa 1769.” (Celia Farber, New York Press, vol. 17, iss. 9)(via The Minor Fall, the Major Lift).

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