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Beyond the Blurb
Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism | Daniel Green
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Beyond the Blurb is a selection of essays that identifies the most important principles of literary criticism and considers the relevance of those principles in the work of literary critics, including James Wood, Harold Bloom, and Susan Sontag. It offers a critical philosophy that reaffirms the value of both criticism and literature.
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SeaToSkyes
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Stolen from a Facebook group I'm in!! 🤣 Literally ran into this problem while book shopping this past weekend; why do they do this?!? #litsylaughs #memes #bookmemes

wanderinglynn Agree! I hate when the “description” gives trite phrases or compares it to other books. 3y
SeaToSkyes @wanderinglynn yes! One that I looked at only had quotes from other authors or from like book reviews on it. That doesn't help at all! 3y
The_Penniless_Author Lol, Slate just ran an article about this very subject. Apparently, book descriptions are now calibrated to trigger certain algorithms that help them get noticed on social media. Kind of like the 50-word-long subtitles many non-fiction books have now to optimize their Amazon search results. 3y
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SeaToSkyes @The_Penniless_Author oh my gosh that's crazy!! 3y
The_Penniless_Author According to the article, Macmillan released something like 36 books last year that were described as "haunting" ? 3y
SeaToSkyes @The_Penniless_Author I have been noticing that many of them sound the same or similar 3y
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IMASLOWREADER
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1. the vegetarian
2. watching movies tv, hiking, sleeping, cross stitching
3. the wife

#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain