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Colorado Springs Reviewerspeak Awards 2010
The book review gender (and racial and cultural) gap
The Dark Heart of Book Reviewing
February 21, 2011
Recent studies show that literary publishing and professional book reviewing is dominated by men,sometimes by as much as 80 percent. But is this so...
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The Reviewerspeak Awards' Michiko Kakutani Limn Watch, Omnibus Edition
Reviewerspeak Awards 2010
October 11, 2010
Many of you--I know--were rather hoping the Reviewerspeak Awards had suffered a quiet and untimely death during the summer.How pleased I am to...
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Hilarious yet heartbreaking: The Reviewerspeak Award results for May 2010
Arts & Entertainment
June 13, 2010
Like Sisyphus straining to push the Boulder of Book Review Prose up and over the Eternal Mountain of Cliché, only to see it, once again,...
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Engrossing, vivid, unstoppable: The Reviewerspeak Award results for April 2010
Arts & Entertainment
May 5, 2010
The worldthe book reviewinhabits is a perilous sort of place. Words leap off pages and grab you by the throat. Chapters fly by. Sharply drawn...
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All Work and No Play Makes Michelle a Dull Girl by Michelle Kerns and Jack Torrance
Arts & Entertainment
April 29, 2010
This is what reading Reviewerspeak Award contender book reviews all day and into the dark watches of the night has done to me.All work and no play...
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It's gripping! It's luminous! It's the maiden voyage of the Reviewerspeak Awards!
Arts & Entertainment
April 4, 2010
Forget the Ides of March: it's theClichésof March -- and of every other month -- you need to keep a riveted,irreverenteye upon.That's the...
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