From WSJopinion: Critic John Simon, who died Sunday at 94, knew that critical indifference to bad art would give rise to more of it, writes jasonrileywsj
On the jacket of my copy of “Acid Test,” a 1963 collection of essays by John Simon, a blurb reads: “When Simon writes about a book, you will want to read it or you will not need to read it.” Praise for a culture critic doesn’t get much higher than that.
Simon died Sunday at the age of 94. We met once, briefly, almost 20 years ago, but I didn’t know him. At the time he was still writing for National Review, among other publications, and I was moonlighting as a film critic for the New York Sun. I enjoyed reading film criticism...
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