http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/06/the-power-of-pride/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:54:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/06/the-power-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-26570 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » “In the old days…Even the hate mail was pretty well thought-out.” Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:41:06 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=328#comment-26570 [...] Kamiya is writing mostly about works that are published on the Web, but as he astutely notes, the relationship effects novelists, too. I wrote about a Booklist mention in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker awhile ago, and Kamiya is also interested in Powers’ take on writers’ heightened exposure to noisy public debate. Fiction writers are not exposed to as much online feedback as journalists, but they too are exposed. And some fiction writers are beginning to register this in their work. In Richard Powers’ latest novel, “The Echo Maker,” one of the main characters is a neurologist and writer whose recent books have been criticized. Looking at comments about him on Amazon, he thinks: “Somehow, when he wasn’t looking, private thought gave way to perpetual group ratings. The age of personal reflection was over. From now on, everything would be haggled out in public feedback brawls.” [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/06/the-power-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » The Power of Pans Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:45:27 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=328#comment-232 [...] Yesterday I wrote about a mention of a Booklist review in the book I’m reviewing for Booklist, Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker. The pre-pub reviews of Gerald Weber’s book have come in, and his editor tells him that the Kirkus review is “a little mixed” but the Booklist review is “to die for.” [...]

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/06/06/the-power-of-pride/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » The Power of Pans Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:59:54 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=328#comment-197 [...] « The Power of Pride An Unedited Exploration of Editing » [...]

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