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December 05, 2004

Book critic Dale Peck is known as "the hatchet man." He's trashed some of the biggest names in American fiction: Don DeLillo, Rick Mood, and David Foster Wallace. He's even called James Joyce's Ulysses "a hoax upon literature." Peck's brutal reviews have raised a basic question: can a critic be too savage? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge we'll meet Dale Peck and some of his critics.

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David Denby of The New Yorker tells Steve Paulson that Pauline Kael was the most remarkable person he’s ever known.

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Sarah Bunting is one of the founders of the website Televisionwithoutpity.com, a site for people who have a love/hate relationship with TV.

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Steve Paulson profiles savage literary critic Dale Peck. A collection of Peck’s reviews is called “Hatchet Jobs.”

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Steve Paulson talks with book critic James Wood about Dale Peck and the business of doing book reviews.  James Wood is literary critic at The New Republic.

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Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows.  He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.

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