By Trevor Dolby, publisher of Preface (Random House imprint), looking at literary criticism and our changing world. A quote from the article:
"There’s also a myriad of new places people can get their direction. You need to search, but there are terrific reviewers on Amazon and in the blogosphere these days. Many have insight, are well read, and review in a way that is useful, educated and entertaining. There are blogs galore written by dedicated readers who want to share their considerable knowledge and personal taste with infectious energy. Then there’s radio, and TV (if Mariella says buy it I buy two, read one and have the other on toast), every prize under the sun from the Man Booker to the Costa, to the Samuel Johnson to the Romantic Novelists, the Nibbies, and, yes, there’s Richard & Judy. All of them much more relevant and effective at prompting someone to read/buy a particular book. And for the cognoscenti there’s, amongmuch else, the Literary Review and the TLS."
Do read it; it's a good article.
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