“ That without the intervention—or, really, the excuse—of an editor or publisher, who would presumably keep you from telling everything if you tried, you no longer have any structural excuse but to tell everything. And so there is a kind of totalizing effect—either you are totally cynical (or sarcastic/frivolous/etc.) or you are totally sincere (angry/confessional/etc).
— baumbach and the internet (Keith Gessen)
