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The Snark Hunter

A genteel discussion on the future of snide humor with David Denby.

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Appalled by the snide, shallow jokes that masquerade as wit and debase our conversation, David Denby, the longtime film critic for the New Yorker, traces the history of vitriolic language in his artful new polemic Snark.

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