For Monday night, could you also read this piece by Steve Wasserman in the Columbia Journalism Review. It's a long piece and you don't have to read the entire thing, but read the beginning, maybe skim the middle and read the ending. We'll talk about it on Monday night. You don't have to bring a print a copy of it, but do jot down some notes from it.
And for your edification:
Here is the Steve Weinberg guide to teaching book reviewing and here are John Updike's rules for reviewing that I read to you in class.
You may also find useful some of the links in the left column (just scroll down) of Critical Mass, the NBCC blog, including
George Orwell on book reviews.
On reviewers' notes.
this Q&A with my former editor at the Inq, Frank Wilson, opens by mentioning Heaney's poem "Digging."
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