AtD Review in Mobile Register

[Daniel Harper]

Great review. I went to high school in Mobile, but haven't been back since
late 1998.

On 5/16/07, Jim Gilbert <posthorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, all --
>
> Since the Mobile (AL) Register has not seen fit to post it on their own
> webpage, I thought I would share with the list my review of Against the Day,
> which was printed in Sunday's paper. It's posted to my own blog, where I
> archive the stuff I write for the Register:
>
> http://www.weirdplots.com/quills.html
>
> I don't know if any of you are following the current death throes of the
> newspaper book review (such as what recently happened at the Atlanta
> Journal-Constitution), but times are dire if you're not writing for the New
> York Times. My editor at the Register received considerable blowback for
> printing this in its entirety, rather than cutting it in half. For my own
> part, this was difficult to do even in 2200 words, taking up 2/3 of a
> page--it still comes off mainly as a "description" of the book, but then
> again by nature these pieces are less critical than any true academic
> explication.
>
> I'd like to encourage everyone to write their local newspaper editor, and
> for what it might be worth let them know that you prize and honor your
> daily/Sunday book review page--if you still have one at all.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Gilbert
>
>
>
>
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