Daggers Drawn

[Dave Monroe]

"Book reviewing, we can all agree, has lost its serrated edge.
Literary critics were once legislators who ripped the masks from
charlatans and hailed our future leaders, but today's reviewers are
more concerned with watching their backs than sharpening their pens.
The bloodbath has become a featherbed.

"Two centuries ago, in the glory days of the literary magazine, the
critic was regarded as a superior being...."

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