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Your comments on how reviews can make or break a book seem apropos, considering FAF is on par, craft-wise, with such pillars of the Western Canon as "Brideshead Revisited." Packard has the makings of the next It Novelist (WG Sebald, Bolano, etc.), except most It Novelists, following a break-out success and some academic muscle behind them, are usually published by one of the six conglomerates. Why tripe-monger Elizabeth Gilbert has her "memoir" turned into a movie and Packard's isn't is another crime against literature.<br /><br />One of the things I admire about Permanent Press (I've read 3 books thus far) is the consistently good product quality and your cultivation of individual literary voices. Writers can be artists, instead of "content providers moving units." Granted, publishing is still a business, but your books have the quality of small-scale artisan pieces instead of mass produced "product."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671249594820130735.post-90580299999018449902010-09-15T18:41:56.871-04:002010-09-15T18:41:56.871-04:00I saw my name listed in your reviews and could har...I saw my name listed in your reviews and could hardly believe it. Suddenly I feel like a real book reviewer. And reading the PW reviews, I suddenly feel much less depressed about the one review I had from them when I entered the ABNA contest a little while ago.<br /><br />I like your (James Agee) comment about what a reviewer should do. I was scared when I started reviewing, thinking (rightly) I'm not qualified to judge what's good or bad. But working out what the author might have intended and how well it worked as I read is a fun challenge, deepens my reading, and makes it all the more enjoyable. Plus it gives me confidence to try my hand and review.Sheila Deethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465615546936319164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671249594820130735.post-5518690659820169222010-09-14T19:37:15.052-04:002010-09-14T19:37:15.052-04:00sounds like let them eat cake. feeding crumbs to t...sounds like let them eat cake. feeding crumbs to the poor. out of the garbage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671249594820130735.post-87805906111276731832010-09-14T13:14:56.911-04:002010-09-14T13:14:56.911-04:00You didn't mention that even with the biggest ...You didn't mention that even with the biggest publisher and lots of reviews and exposure, an author still cannot sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor. It's promote, promote, promote all the time. You have to blog, twitter, travel, mingle, teach, reach, and facebook to get your book to sell so you may have the opportunity to do it all over again.Barbara Slatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671249594820130735.post-33473904456884083852010-09-14T12:30:29.962-04:002010-09-14T12:30:29.962-04:00MARTY, WOW! THAT WAS A MIGHTY THOROUGH REVIEW OF R...MARTY, WOW! THAT WAS A MIGHTY THOROUGH REVIEW OF REVIEWERS. ONE OF THE REVIEWERS YOU FLATTERINGLY MENTION TOLD ME THAT SHE NEVER WRITES A BAD REVIEW. UNLESS SHE KNOWS AHEAD OF TIME THAT A BOOK IS GOOD, HOW CAN SHE DO THAT? ISN'T SHE DOING A DISSERVICE TO THE READER? I AGREE ABOUT JANET MASLIN. ONLY WHEN YOU SEE MICHIKO KAKUTANI'S BYLINE DO YOU KNOW THAT THIS MIGHT BE AN IMPORTANT BOOK. YOUR CRITICISM OF THE NYT IS DESERVED. I SORT OF GIVE THEM A PASS BECAUSE I THINK THEY ARE RUNNING SCARED IN THE MIDST OF THE WATERSHED CHANGES TAKING PLACE IN THE NEWSPAPER WORLD AND WILL DO ANYTHING TO PLEASE READERS AND ADVERTISERS. WHETHER THIS IS ADVISABLE IN THE LONG RUN REMAINS TO BE SEEN. AS YOU SAY IT'S THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY AND I WINCE WHEN I PICK UP A VERY THIN EDITION WHICH IS HAPPENING MORE AND MORE FREQUENTLY. I SHARE YOUR PROBLEMS WITH THE NYT BOOK REVIEW. SEVERAL WEEKS AGO ITS FRONT PAGE RAVED ABOUT TWO NOVELS BY THE SAME AUTHOR THAT THE REVIEWER CLAIMED TO BE WORKS OF GENIUS. I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THEM. THEY WERE BORING, TURGID, UNINTERESTING. HOW DID THEIR REVIEWER GET AWAY WITH THAT? OF COURSE, I MUST ADMIT THAT PERHAPS I DON'T KNOW GREAT LITERATURE WHEN I READ IT.JIM MARQUARDTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7671249594820130735.post-31948388766326088692010-09-14T12:29:40.597-04:002010-09-14T12:29:40.597-04:00Thank you for tackling this subject. I agree that ...Thank you for tackling this subject. I agree that anonymous reviews open the door for irresponsible - sometimes even mean-spirited - reviewing. Or just moody pot-shot taking. For many years I wrote art reviews every week and my name ran at the bottom of every one. I knew that if people disagreed or if I said something irresponsible or lame I'd hear about it. Having your name attached to a piece of writing makes you think twice about making a casual slam at someone else's expense. (I did once observe that a show of erotic art was "badly hung." But people seemed to agree.) <br />Margaret HawkinsMargaret Hawkinshttp://www.amazon.com/Margaret-Hawkins/e/B002F8F514/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0noreply@blogger.com