"... today we face an environment in which, as the book pages shrink, criticism often gives way to book notices as a series of puffs, with many reviewers openly acknowledging they won’t write about books they don’t like. An understandable attitude, no doubt, arising from a genuine compassion for the struggles authors have promoting books to a largely indifferent culture. But it’s symptomatic of a shift from the importance of writing to the importance of writers, which is quite a different matter."
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:04:51 +0000
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