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My takeaway from the article wasn't that there aren't people reviewing books anymore, but that fewer people today can make a living writing informed criticism a
by karaterobot 5y ago
My takeaway from the article wasn't that there aren't people reviewing books anymore, but that fewer people today can make a living writing informed criticism about style and technique, as opposed to about how a book makes them feel, or how it fits into an ongoing cultural conversation.
- ggm 5y agoYea, maybe because I buy more non fiction i mistake review for literary criticism. I'm probably unaware of the change in eng. Lit. as a field. I always found other peoples take on a lyrical quality in somebody's writing as less useful than "it's a coherent narrative" -I know how Rushdie or Vikram seth write: i want to know how concretely plausible or accurate their story is regarding Indian social affairs of the time.