{"id":1472,"date":"2012-10-03T10:27:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2012-10-03T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T14:27:33","slug":"in-praise-of-book-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/10\/03\/in-praise-of-book-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise Of Book Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Self defends<\/a> the place of bloggers in the firmament of literary criticism against attacks from Sir Peter Stothard<\/a>, editor of the TLS and Man Booker Prize judge:<\/p>\n

\n

The books that [Sir Peter] Stothard and I both want to celebrate \u00e2\u20ac\u201c those with
\n“extraordinary and exhilarating prose” \u00e2\u20ac\u201c tend to come from the edges
\nrather than the centre, and increasingly from small presses. He would
\nsurely agree, as his panel has this year chosen a Booker shortlist<\/a> on which half the titles come from tiny independents: Salt<\/a>, And Other Stories<\/a> and Myrmidon<\/a>.
\n These are the publishers who get more attention from bloggers than they
\n do from the literary press, because a one-person blog has a flexibility
\n and manoeuvrability that larger literary publications lack. When
\nDeborah Levy’s Swimming Home<\/a>, one of the most interesting titles on the shortlist, was published last October, the first national newspaper review<\/a>, in the Guardian, was by a blogger \u00e2\u20ac\u201c me, in fact. Most other papers didn’t cover it until it was longlisted for the Booker.<\/p>\n

The
\n greatest tool bloggers have at their disposal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to be exercised with
\ncaution \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is space. Former fiction editor of the TLS, Lindsay Duguid,
\nsaid that “in a short review, you can probably only get over three
\npoints”. A blog can explore a book at a length that all but the most
\nprominent literary critics would envy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Norm Geras adds<\/a> two cents.<\/p>\n

\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/10\/in-praise-of-book-bloggers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+andrewsullivan%2FrApM+%28The+Daily+Dish%29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Self defends the place of bloggers in the firmament of literary criticism against attacks from Sir Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS and Man Booker Prize judge: The books that [Sir Peter] Stothard and I both want to celebrate \u00e2\u20ac\u201c those with “extraordinary and exhilarating prose” \u00e2\u20ac\u201c tend to come from the edges rather … <\/p>\n

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