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Bellow’s elegant assassin strikes, fly-by epiphanies and prose crescendos get periodically buried under researched word-tonnage intended to cement a legacy and ensure permanence. But there’s also the peril that what Josh Marshall calls the para-government (the journalists, lobbyists, think-tankers, caterers) will become wired so tight that it becomes a closed system responding entirely to its own jumpy nerves. It’s too much for him to take in: the consumer-choice overload frizzes his synapses. He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. On June 3, 1992, presidential aspirant Bill Clinton, wearing cool-daddy shades and a groovy tie and wielding a mighty sax, opened The Arsenio Hall Show with a squawky version of Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel”—it drove the studio audience crazy-pants. Throwing Romney’s name into the hopper reflected the fetish that Washington entertains for a centrism that converts everything to mush. secretary: Mr. Flour Power himself, Newt Gingrich. Upsetting the maximum number of people with the minimal amount of effort is a gift and a curse, akin to Jonathan Franzen’s earnest genius for getting on everyone’s nerves. Where Netflix, with its black background, suggests Borg-cube colonization with all of those sliding carousels of gritty, grimy, gun-wielding crime shows and edgy, transgressive comedies, with a few family-friendlies flecked in like candy corn, the podcast arcade at iTunes, with its white background and airy spacing, couldn’t look more peppy and bright. Such dos were among the last hurrahs of the postwar literary era dominated by heap big novelists now facilely grouped as a cetacean school of Great White Males, whose ghostly father and bearded Neptune disturbing the liquor cabinet deep into the night was Ernest Hemingway. Clinton on Arsenio made it possible for Barack Obama to appear on Between Two Ferns without everyone getting a goiter, for ABC’s The View to become a routine campaign stop and schmoozing depot.