Pretentious readers, with their non-prescription glasses and their insistence that poetry doesn't have to rhyme, can be irritating. So, when we come across a book that pretentious lit-boys just ...

Look, to be perfectly fair, I like my fair share of pretentious books. I genuinely enjoyed reading Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. But if you're a serious reader looking for a book that won't ...

In my book Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve ... Authors revered for being literary (or ones that others call pretentious) have high semicolon use. Salman Rushdie, John Updike, and Donna Tartt ...

Only fragments. Whenever I’m reading a book I find repellently pretentious, I think back to one of Jonathan Lethem’s essays, collected in his book “The Ecstasy of Influence” (2011).

“Pretentious rubbish. I don’t know why they bother.” In a witty and insightful new book, Dan Fox, an editor at the art magazine frieze, suggests that rather than run away from pretension we ...

This perspective is really where my big problem with the book lies — it just takes itself too seriously. And while Yi admits in the same interview that her main character is “an intellectual who has a ...

Pretentious inner monologues by Natwest and Lily fill their respective chapters, easily crossing the line into annoyance, particularly as Natwest acts as if he knows better than anyone else in the ...

The book will take place 24 years before The Hunger Games and ... Beyond that, plot details remain vague, unless you count Collins’ utterly pretentious author’s statement as informative. “With Sunrise ...