Blurbs

Blurbs. Few parts of the publishing process cause more anxiety for writers. As a blurb requester, it’s stressful and a bit pathetic to beg for praise from writers you may have never met. As a potential blurber, the number of requests can be overwhelming and blurbing is always time consuming. Hell writers have been complaining about blurbs since the dawn of, well, blurbs. Lincoln Michel, Counter Craft

Segue una disamina sui blurbs (a proposito, come si traduce in italiano?)

E una bella recensione di un libro che sembra interessante. Chi l'avrebbe mai detto che Stalin fosse un lettore vorace? Il libro è, Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin's Library (Yale UP).

Stalin was a voracious reader, who set himself a daily quota of between 300 and 500 pages. When he died of a stroke in his library in 1953, the desk and tables that surrounded him were piled high with books, many of them heavily marked with his handwriting in the margins. [...] During his life he amassed a personal library estimated at about 20,000 books ... Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian