Word: collectordom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Like Martin Amis, she has sympathy for her comically debauched characters and mints turns of phrase the way the government mints pennies, as when Alex wanders into a bar "to have a drink, maybe drinks, maybe drinkseses." And she has a feel for the peculiarly male, geeky world of collectordom. But while she finds myriad arresting ways to say celebrity is a modern religion--"All fandom is a form of tunnel vision: warm and dark and infinite in one direction"--that doesn't make the idea less banal, nor does it obviate the need for emotional investment. At a climactic...
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