Joyce Carol Oates: Reviews miss the writer


	Joyce Carol Oates: Reviews miss the writer

readforpleasure

6-27-2007 5:47 PM

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readforpleasure says:

A nice, pithy commentary that's very relevant to book blogging. For a number of reasons (amateur reviewers, broad access, etc), internet reviewing seems to intensify all the anxiety of hurting authors' feelings, as well as the visibility of the hurt feelings themselves.

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