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'''Michiko Kakutani''' (born [[January 9]], [[1955]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]) is a highly influential and controversial [[literary critic]] for the ''[[New York Times]]''. She attended [[Yale University]], where she earned a degree in English. Before joining the ''Times'' in [[1979]], she had worked as a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter and as a writer for ''[[Time Magazine]]''. She won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in [[1998]] for her work as a critic.

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Kakutani is best known for her book reviews. Her eviscerations of many prominent authors have garnered her considerable attention and dislike. She has also been known to write reviews in the voice of movie or book characters, including [[Austin Powers]] [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400EED71738F930A15754C0A9649C8B63], [[Holden Caulfield]] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/books/23kaku.html], Elle Woods of ''[[Legally Blonde]]'' [http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-printpage.html?res=9B03EED81038F93AA25755C0A9659C8B63] and [[Truman Capote]]'s character [[Holly Golightly]] [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/books/24kaku.html?ex=1137560400&en=ee6c75c24446abc9&ei=5070].

Her father was the mathematician [[Shizuo Kakutani]], a professor at Yale University, who is best known for his demonstration of the [[fixed-point theorem]] for multi-valued mapping, which served as a basis for the foundation of modern mathematical economics.

She has been prominently featured, though without appearance, in an episode of the popular show ''[[Sex and the City]]'', in which [[Carrie Bradshaw]] releases a book that Michiko Kakutani reviews.

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==Criticism==

Kakutani also enjoys a quirkier fame for the alleged overuse of the word ''limn'' in her reviews. [http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/03/10.html] [http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/books/n_7968/]

i give a fuck to either why?

She was famously parodied in the essay [http://www.mcsweeneys.net/1999/01/23michiko.html "I Am Michiko Kakutani"], which the [[New Haven Advocate]] called "a great moment in ''[[McSweeney's]]'' history, by Kakutani's college classmate [[Colin McEnroe]]."

PROXEEEEE TIME!!!!!

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