If there is a problem with book reviewing the problem is that those of us who are good at it aren’t good enough, there aren’t enough of us, and we aren’t doing a good enough job of expanding the scope of literary discourse. - Gawker
Reading is not a beachy activity. Reading is for armchairs and bay windows and loverless beds. Bring a book to the beach and you’re agreeing to ruin the book. - The Atlantic
This is a form that asks readers to suspend their disbelief, and so like any piece of theater, it trades on its own vulnerability, invites our complicity, as if only the quality of our attention protects it from reality’s brutal puncture. - BookForum
And if you're one of the legion who adore Lizzy and Jane, or Meg and Jo, or ... etc., here's a list for you. (If you're not there yet, here's a starting point.) - LitHub
Yeah, no thank you, a lot of Americans don't want to reckon. Better, some imprints think, to make a lot of money off of conservative books like Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe or American Marxism. - The New York Times
It's a luxury writers with other full-time jobs long for - but the lucky often discover the luxury of being a full-time writer is a poisoned chalice. - LitHub
The main problem is that the contemporary American book review is first and foremost an audition — for another job, another opportunity, another day in the content mine... - N+1
After many rejections, An Island was published by tiny indie press Holland House in a print run of a mere 500 copies owing to the pandemic. It was met mostly with silence. - The Guardian
The font that they’re calling Chirp is extremely similar to GT America, which is itself based on Franklin Gothic. They changed the spacing ever so slightly and changed the square dots over i and j, and then the period and comma to be circular. - Slate
A "Freedom to Publish" report from the International Publishers Association covers hundreds of examples of censorship since the start of the COVID pandemic — not only in such countries as Belarus, Hungary, and China, but also in the US, France, and the UK. - Publishers Weekly
Ephemerality is the intractable problem plaguing most writing about the internet... Even if we’re stuck with social media for the long haul... its trends and user behaviors change so quickly that any attempt to trap them in amber becomes instantly dated. - The New Republic
No, this isn't a polemic against the less-than-heavyweight material stereotypically enjoyed on a blanket on the sand. This is a polemic against reading at the beach. - The Atlantic
The site has a bullying problem, too. Huge traffic and inadequate moderation have allowed "review bombers" to threaten authors: Pay us or we'll flood your book with bad reviews and tank its rating. (Or maybe we'll do it just for kicks.) - Time
When the manuscript began circulating, several major publishing companies vied for it in a frenzied auction, with bids soaring into the seven figures. - The New York Times
