Daily Archives: January 2, 2022

A Twitter Thread on Book Blurbing

Posted on January 2, 2022     29 Comments

From earlier today, presented here for archival purposes, and also, you know, to make the the point that people are often very confidently wrong about things. The subject at hand is whether I pretty much indiscriminately endorse the books that come my way. Longtime readers here know the answer to that, but it’s always worth […]

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