It seemed as though their irrelevance was a foregone conclusion, and we were just practicing this quaint exercise of pretending something mattered when of course everyone knew it didn't." She added her own aim as book critic would be "to endow something with importance, by treating it as an emotional experience." Scott how'd she decided on The Believer's tone: "I really saw 'the end of the book' as originating in the way books are talked about now in our culture and especially in the most esteemed venues for book criticism. In 2005, she told the New York Times culture writer A.O. She wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (subtitled: "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of The Believer, a publication which attempts to avoid snarkiness and "give people and books the benefit of the doubt." She later went on to earn an MFA from Columbia University. She was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003) and The Uses of Enchantment (2006) and The Vanishers (2012). 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney's Quarterly. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine.
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