Posts tagged books

bgeblog:

Andrew Wylie speaks to Martha Kearney on the BBC’s The World at One

When you look at the niche sector you are publishing books into, does it really make sense to think about it as book publishing anymore?

More and more, I look at companies who think they are BOOK publishers and I begin to think that at best they are publishers and at worst service companies!

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, just that they haven’t acknowledged the change themselves!

Eoin

A kind of nasty review for Kevin Barry’s City Of Bohane, unattributed too which seems odd:

There are other oddities, notably a first-person narrator who makes his presence felt every so often, but so glancingly that you wonder what he’s doing there, and by the end his function, if he has one, remains unclear. Barry has a remarkable talent, as is evident from his short stories, but a novel requires particular qualities — a satisfying structure, a mastery of the long, developing narrative and complex characters of psychological and emotional depth — that aren’t essential, or sometimes even required, in the shorter form. On this showing, the author has yet to command these qualities.

(Source: independent.ie)