It’s time to play Review or Press Release?, in which you, the reader, must determine whether a piece of writing about a book is written by a critic or a publicist.
First up is this review in The Independent, of Shaena Lambert’s first novel, Radiance.
Ready? Go!
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A very subtle and funny writer - one I've become obsessed with over the past year - in a decidedly Muriel Spark mood. Imagine The Pr...
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If my publicist wrote a press release that dull, I'd fire him/her/it.
I choose (c): high school book report. ack.
Absolute press release -- it's even worse here in Canada, where most 'authors' moonlight as 'reviewers' and praise their fellow alumni from MFA programmes
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