Everything Bad is Good for You

Everything Bad is Good for YouBy: Steven Johnson We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent. Steven Johnson puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. He shows that mass culture The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, The Apprentice, The Sopranos, Grand Theft Auto is

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one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century

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