4 Quotes & Sayings By Janet Beizer

Janet Beizer is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: the Pulitzer Prize-winning Baby Boom and the New York Times bestseller, 40 and Single. A former newspaper reporter and author, she is a talk show host on San Francisco's KGO Radio and an on-air contributor on the NPR program, Family Portrait. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and their three children.

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It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation of citations) that it gains a subversive power rather than remain a mere dependent (and thus conservative) form of social discourse. Reversal plays a double role in this novel (MONSIEUR VENUS), for it is not only a formal strategy bearing on citation, but itself a citation as well; one more cliché mobilized from the fin-de-siecle reserve. Janet Beizer
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Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all. Janet Beizer
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If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe. Janet Beizer