“Books Are Sacred”: Neil Gaiman on Amazon vs. Hachette and Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ Uncovered a Dirty Little Secret

By Elisabeth Donnelly on Jun 12, 2014 1:08pm

Neil Gaiman is worried about the future of books. In an interview with Salon, pegged to his new… Read More

Donna Tartt’s ‘The Goldfinch’ Uncovered a Dirty Little Secret: Readers Don’t Listen to Critics

By Jason Diamond on Jun 12, 2014 12:04pm

I’ve talked before about how literary criticism is in a strange place in the 21st century, forced almost completely off of the printed pages it’s occupied in the past, relegated mostly to websites that have to come up with good clickbait headlines to get anybody to read about literature. 
The book review just hasn’t been able to compete with “22 Reasons You Should Read this Book”-type listicles. That doesn’t mean literary criticism will go away; like literature in general, it just needs to figure out a better way to get people to pay attention. … Read More