.mollyhfischer profiles Pamela Paul, an opinion columnist at the Times whose work—deliberately contrarian or not—has pushed a lot of people’s buttons.
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With her columns as with her books, Paul seeks to balance the personal and the panoramic. “If you don’t step beyond the boundaries of your own experience, then you’re writing for yourself and not for your readers,” Paul told me. “Even with the cruise column, I was trying to get at something that I think people can relate to, which is fears versus anxieties versus worry, and what it means to be afraid of something.
Life as rendered in the Paul œuvre is trip-wired with such rules. Her first three books are reported explorations of “consumer culture,” she told me: “The Starter Marriage” describes the selling of matrimony; “Pornified,” of sex; “Parenthood, Inc.,” of child rearing. An occupational hazard of critiquing consumer culture is overstating the power of marketing; in this respect, Paul’s rapt attention to external expectations leaves her particularly vulnerable.
“Unpopular opinions” seem like a strange loss to blame on the Internet, a place where more opinions than ever, many manifestly quite unpopular, are in evidence every day. Indeed, what Paul seems to be recognizing is the cacophonous array of opinions—and the implied rules and social milieus behind them—that the Internet makes visible. From a certain vantage, this development could be liberatory: what a relief, that no one set of rules now demands fealty.
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