And speaking of guys who Just Don’t Get It: Harold Bloom on Stephen King (LA Times registration required, found via Neil Gaiman). I thought he was a little out-of-touch and ultimately mistaken in his criticism of Harry Potter, but I could more or less understand his position. (Maybe partly because, while I liked the book, I wasn’t in awe and haven’t rushed to read the sequels.)
But Bloom’s criticism here of King is just mean, petty, and, as Gaiman writes, “puffed-up snobbery of the worst kind.”