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Monday Mar 21, 2005
Gilead Wins NBCC AwardThis year's National Book Critics Circle award winners:
According to The Plain Dealer, Sam Tanenhaus argued that "editors make a mistake striving for 'a false objectivity and neutrality that readers can see through.'" Dennis Loy Johnson, publisher of Melville House Publishing and proprieter of mobylives.com, "took a different slant" and called objective book reviews "a good thing." Johnson conitnued, "I still think reviewing is news reporting to some extent." Johnson also noted that, despite "the shrinking space dedicated to book reviews in newspapers and magazines" (The Plain Dealer's phrasing), the blogosphere was not ready for primetime. "At the moment, the writing is not up to snuff," he said. "The blogosphere is still driven by young men just out of an MFA program and they've still got a lot of issues to work out."Blogcritics.org also reported on the panel discussion, noting that "the key issue" under discussion "was whether book reviews are ideologically driven." The conclusion was they are, and that may be OK. Occasionally obscuring the discourse: the preening and stroking by the panelists, particularly [Rick] Perlstein, who spent much of his opening statement telling Tanenhaus how wonderfully he has modernized the Times Book Review. Tanenhaus broadened the field by praising Steve Wasserman, the highly tailored editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, for raising the reviewing bar. Email This Post |
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