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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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The Many Attacks on 'Twilight'

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Nov 16 2011, 8:30 AM ET Comment

Stephenie Meyers's teen-vampire saga has angered an astonishing range of people, from feminists to Christians to Stephen King

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On the surface Twilight seems harmless enough. It's a relatively straighforward tale about a human girl who falls in love with a century-old vampire. But in the six years since the series' first book was published, Stephenie Meyer's teen vampire saga has angered an astounding range of people: feminists, Christians, best-selling authors, and more.

With the fourth installment of the film adaptation coming out on Friday, here's a look at all the reasons people have gotten mad about Twilight:



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