Why I Prefer to Promote What I Love Instead of Bashing What I Hate

Today I read an old blogpost on Slate from 2012 by someone who is tired of people being nice to writers on the internet. Okay, okay – maybe that’s not exactly what I was supposed to take away from thearticle, but it actually *is* what I took away from it. Basically, the author of said article asks the big money question: Have nice readers and nice writerscreated a “chilling effect” on literary criticism?

Evidently the author believes that if a writer is a great person on twitter and social me...