Are publishers actually interested in selling books? is the title of an anonymous but well-written article over at Bookarazzi. To most authors it looks as if the publishing process comes to a dead stop at midnight on the day of publication.
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The Ethics of Book Reviewing at the Book Critics Circle:
And 60.5 percent think it’s [...]
Hermione Lee’s essay in the New York Review of Books discusses works by Milan Kundera, Jane Smiley, Edward Mendelson, John Mullan, John Sutherland, Franco Moretti and Patrick Parrinder. There’s some good stuff in there.
The year 2006 also saw the publication, in America and Britain, of a number of books on the novel, as widely varying [...]
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