Snark Attack!

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WNYC News | Jul 13, 2010

David Denby, the pointed but never snarky film critic for The New Yorker, talks about his new book Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation. Denby and Lehrer review some well-known quips and ask "Is This Snark?"

Want more? You can listen to Lehrer and Denby's complete conversation here.

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