How is it professional book critics can pump out scores of reviews a year when many of us struggle just to read one book a week? They are told what to say. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Lethem’s latest novel Dissident Gardens at first appears more grounded than his other works, trading supernatural elements for a more realist view of the world. But in Part 2 of his interview with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg, Lethem says to look closer. In his unflinching—some would say... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marcel Reich-Ranicki was a living embodiment of so much of 20th century German intellectual life. Will the internet era ever produce as influential a critic? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
New York Times critic Dwight Garner stopped at book-centered destinations throughout the Big Apple. 'I was smitten all over again,' Garner wrote after his excursion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]