Rotten Reviews Redux: A Literary Companion
A quarter century ago Pushcart Press took aim at ridiculous reviews that had trashed literary masterpieces through the centuries. Over 175 attacks were quoted in a little book that itself became a best-selling classic. Today much has changed. The rise of digital self-publishing has fired up hundreds of critical blogs. As the cliché has it everybody is a critic - and they're often anonymous and far from nice.This collection, with a new introduction, by Pushcart editor Bill Henderson includes gems like:The final blow-up of what was once a remarkable, if minor. talent. (The New Yorker, 1936, on William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!)Diffuse...brac…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-888889-68-0
- EAN: 9781888889680
- Produktnummer: 13106435
- Verlag: Pushcart
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 95 S.
- Masse: H18.0 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.8 cm 236 g
- Gewicht: 236
Über den Autor
Bill Henderson is the founder and editor of the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2006 National Book Critic Circle's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Poets & Writers / Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. He is also the author of several memoirs, including All My Dogs: A Life. The founder of the Lead Pencil Club, Henderson lives on Long Island and In Maine where he runs the Pushcart bookstore - the world's smallest bookstore.
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