tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post7364243767826546324..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: Obituary …Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-67973861651384721712016-11-16T08:30:33.308-05:002016-11-16T08:30:33.308-05:00... The New York Times, that bastion of gratuituou...<a href="http://tinyurl.com/j4ubutx" rel="nofollow">... The New York Times, that bastion of gratuituous meanness ....</a><br /><br />Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-44827358136706056672016-11-16T03:04:28.632-05:002016-11-16T03:04:28.632-05:00One of Guy Davenport's essays complained about...One of Guy Davenport's essays complained about the NY Times Book Review and NYRB encouraging gratuitous meanness. I could find the essay in ten minutes were I home, but I'm not. I suspect that it is in <i>The Hunter Gracchus</i> or <i>Every Force Defines a Form</i>.<br /><br />I suppose that one could excuse harsh reviews on the grounds of the irritation created by reading a bad book. Some in my neighborhood book club have a way of picking books that I would set down indifferently after five minutes of browsing in a bookstore, but that I come to dislike after reading the whole four hundred pages.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com