Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Review Backlash Chill

The Post says Alice Hoffman, annoyed by a review that said her latest book wasn't so good as her earlier work, vented on Twitter, calling the reviewer a "moron" and asking, "How do some people get to review books?"

Well, I got to write this review simply by offering. But maybe I should have been less scorchingly critical. "May be too challenging", for example -- I could have shown more restraint there. Maybe I should have been more grateful to the publishers who sent me a free copy of the book, more fearful of the wrath of the three authors, who, for all I know, have been tweeting angrily about me since the newsletter came out . . .

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