Yesterday afternoon at the Center for Fiction in midtown, NBCC board member Walton Muyumba led a conversation about racial and gender representation in book reviewing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
VIDA's annual survey of literary publications found that book reviewing and literary coverage is still dominated by men. The post Women Buy Books, Men Review Them appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Possibly the most famous book review, ever, was written by the young Irish wit and polemicist John Wilson Croker. Croker is still remembered, though obscurely, as a founder of modern political conservatism. What's more, according to some sources, John Wilson Croker invented the very term... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2011-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]