“Unlike critics who write about film or food or music, book critics are rarely required to engage with popular material,” Jennifer Weiner wrote in The Guardian on Tuesday with blithe confidence. Like anyone who engages in book criticism professionally, I imagine, I bridled at this opening salvo. How dare you, Jennifer Weiner! But maybe she had a point.
Book Critics Don't Exist To Flatter Your Taste
Claire Fallon, Huffington Post
Wed, 11/25/2015 - 4:12pm
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