Elizabeth Gumport
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The Death (and Rebirth?) of the Book Review
Why review books? At The Awl, Jane Hu takes a historical approach to answering that question. Quoting writers from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Franzen, Hu argues that the apparently ever-progressing “death” of the book review is perhaps a more nuanced…
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Who Do We Invite To The Orgy?
Tom Lutz at the Los Angeles Review of Books discusses Elizabeth Gumport’s essay in n+1 called “Against Reviews.” Lutz writes “Taste cultures do have something to do with circles of intimates, and the explosion of book clubs in recent years…