critics

Good news in the book reviews department:

National Public Radio has expanded the book coverage on its website, adding weekly book reviews, and has hired six new book reviewers—including a graphic novel reviewer—and added more features to an already existing lineup of author podcasts, critics' lists and other book-focused content.

Some surprising choices here…and some interesting reasons for them. Got any to add?

Every writer has to deal with criticism, especially during the redrafting process. But how do you use criticism effectively? Don't be offended by criticism! Amateurs need to learn how to assess criticism and what it really tells them about their writing.

Peter Carey is bored with—and by the sounds of things, just a wee bit pissed at—people dissecting his work looking for autobiographical scraps. “It’s such crap’” he says. “I’m just trying to make a work of art.” He’s also unimpressed with how his work is treated in his native Australia.

The Association of American Publishers will award its AAP Honors prize to the National Book Critics Circle this year. The award honors "significant achievements in promoting American books and authors," and is being given to the NBCC in recognition of their work to save book reviews.

Site is informative and provides a list of authors and topics if you care to comment on your favorite. Actually I was looking for anything having to do with Hemingway's folly for a paper that I am contemplating. Imagine the life of a critic, living a split life of his author's world and his own. Interesting read on Hemingway.

"Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America."
http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780826217288-0

:) Interesting word that "handmaiden"

Just listened to the first podcast ;) Loved it. Good job!!