NYT Paper Cuts on book reviewing, 12 June 2007


	NYT Paper Cuts on book reviewing, 12 June 2007

readforpleasure

6-26-2007 2:49 PM

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books, reviews, romance, ethics

readforpleasure says:

An interesting exchange between the senior editor of the NY Times Book Review and several romance authors. The whole comments section is worth a read!

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<P class="post-author">By <SPAN><A title="Posts by Dwight Garner" href="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/author/dgarner/">Dwight Garner</A></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/the-skim/"><P>Interesting that every single book reviewed elsewhere has also been reviewed by the Times (the Diana book’s gotten two full reviews, plus a feature piece on Ms. Brown).
Can you give us some insights into how reviewers make their choices? Do you all get a supersecret list of which books/authors/imprints are important enough to merit a mention? Have reviewers noticed that it’s the same tiny handful of authors who get written up everywhere, while there are authors — and, in the Times’ case, entire genres — that never get mentioned at all?
</p> <P><CITE>— Posted by Jen</CITE></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/the-skim/"><P>Dear Jen — Thanks for your questions; they’re ones we do take seriously. Sam Tanenhaus, the Book Review’s editor, answered some if not most of them in an e-mail chat a while ago. The link is here. </p> <P>I hope you’ll keep reading the section. And, of course, the blog.</p> <P><A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/business/media/11asktheeditors.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/business/media/11askt heeditors.html?pagewanted=all</A>
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