It isn't criticism that irritates--we're all adults here, right?--but what does is criticism that misinterprets and, in the process, misleads potential readers. When poet and translator Andrew Frisardi was on the receiving-end of such treatment for his translation of Vita Nova (Northwestern University Press) in the pages of the Times Literary Supplement, he did what … Continue reading Call of the Siren exclusive: Andrew Frisardi’s response
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Some painful reading
Here is the look of a great lady on the verge of death. Here is also the look of something else: What it feels like to read a bad book review. I love the grim, gray pages of the Times Literary Supplement -- make that grim, grey pages -- even though the reading can get … Continue reading Some painful reading
How do you blurb this?
I don't envy the book publicist who's trying to pull blurbs from the "Books of the Year" list in the latest edition of the Times Literary Supplement. There are plenty of raves among the 47 writers and critics listed there -- one of them, in fact, is my favorite Tolkien critic, Tom Shippey, on Nancy … Continue reading How do you blurb this?
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