Quote of the Day | 0322
There are critics that you like reading but you don’t trust—like Helen Vendler. Or James Wood—I love reading him, but when he tells me a book is good, I don’t actually believe it. I believe he thinks so. But I think his taste is completely bizarre. You have to try to meet a book where it is. You can’t review a crime novel and complain that it’s violent or cynical. But I don’t write a lot of negative reviews anymore—it’s not my brief—and that’s where you wind up with what most authors and publishers consider ethical quandaries: negative reviews that they feel are unearned. For average readers, the big ethical issues are positive reviews that are unearned.
Laura Miller, in: ‘The Art of the Review’
[x]#8462 fan dinsdag 22 maart 2011 @ 09:56:50
