Stevie in The New Yorker!

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

I thought it was not a very interesting or helpful article. Some of the descriptions might have seemed, to use the writer's phrase, "felicitous", but that's such an obvious post-Pauline (Kael) way of writing. I don't get how one paragraph to another relates to any particular insight as to why Stevie remains in our heads, the subject of the out-of-nowhere last paragraph, or the worth (or lack) of the new album.

I don't think that was the writer's intention. They were reviewing the album and giving some brief contextualisation. For What It's Worth I think it's fairly well written with, as I've said, a couple of very neat turns of phrase. Perhaps a longer piece would be better for a justification of how Stevie has retained her meaning (if you believe she has). Pauline Kael was also quite the master of the one liner quip - as Meryl Streep often found to her cost!