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December 2007

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The Starving Artist’s Revenge [New York Observer]

The Starving Artist’s Revenge [New York Observer]

[New York Observer; December 5, 2007]

THE GIFT: CREATIVITY AND THE ARTIST IN THE MODERN WORLD…

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My Hat —-> The Ring

My Hat —-> The Ring
To serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle sounds like whatever the …

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But in the long run reviewers succeed best when they start with love. If you care deeply for a book, author or subject, you will want others to understand and share your passion. If a book fails to live up to its promise or premise, you will point this out more with sorrow than with glee. The correction of taste does matter, yet sympathy, intelligent appreciation and genuine enthusiasm are even more important.

But in the long run reviewers succeed best when they start with love. If you care deeply for a book, author or subject, you will …

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Imagine how much livelier criticism would be if novice reviewers—instead of dreaming of the day when they, too, might meet Malcolm Gladwell and his hair—availed themselves of review collections by Sheed, Brophy, McCarthy, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, Marvin Mudrick, Seymour Krim, H.L. Mencken, Anatole Broyard, and Philip Larkin and entertained those voices in their heads. What a tutorial that would be. Anyway, it beats moping.

Imagine how much livelier criticism would be if novice reviewers—instead of dreaming of the day when they, too, might meet Malcolm Gladwell and his hair—availed …

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Search” is not the most exciting demand that one can make of a text.

Search” is not the most exciting demand that one can make of a text.
The Battle of the Book…

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Anyone remember "The Decline of Book Reviewing" from ’59?

Anyone remember “The Decline of Book Reviewing” from ’59?
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It was published in Harper’s, “and yet here we are, almost a half-century later, …

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