Daily Archives: August 19, 2012
(Not) Reviewing Books
Posted on August 19, 2012 38 Comments
The literary world appears to be having one of its semi-predictable spasms about writers criticizing writers — or writers not criticizing writers enough, as the case may be — and all the various associated emotions that go with that. We get these bouts of novel gazing fairly regularly because very often the people who write reviews of […]
Relinking to My Comment Deletions Policy
Posted on August 19, 2012 30 Comments
Getting a few requests this week from folks asking if I wouldn’t mind deleting their (generally non-objectionable) comments on the site. Yes, in fact, I would mind, and here’s the explanation why. Quick advice: Don’t make a comment on this site you don’t want to have exist for as long as the Internet exists and […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying