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Don't Be Held Hostage By Reviewers

Lev Raphael | Posted 09.10.2012 | Books
Read More: Book Publicity, Reviewers, Book Publishing, Reviews, Book Reviewers, Janet Maslin, Book Reviews, New York Times, Writing Tips, Writing Advice, Salon.com. Writers, Authors, Mean Book Reviews, Humor, Bad Book Review, Bad Book Reviews, Janet Maslin Mean Review, Books News
Lev Raphael

Wannabe authors imagine that once they get published, life will be glorious. That's because they haven't thought much about bad reviews. Every author gets them, and sometimes they're crushing.

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Joyce Carol Oates: A Widow's Derangement

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Suicide, Raymond Smith, Widow, Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton, Janet Maslin, Widowhood, A Widow's Story, Remarriage, Books News
Elizabeth Benedict

A Widow's Story is called a memoir, but the word seems too slight for the grandeur of what Joyce Carol Oates does in this work of startling intimacy, humanity, humility, and wisdom.

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Great Titles to Add to the NYT Best of 2010 Lists

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Walter Mosley, Dwight Garner, Best Books of 2010, Chitra Divakaruni, Tajana Soli, Susanna Daniel, Janet Maslin, Emma Donoghue, S.J. Bolton. Elisabeth Tova Bailey, Lorcan Roche, The Donner Party, Julia Glass, Gabrielle Burton, Antonya Nelson, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

In a year when so many good books were published, my own list of the best of 2010 includes some truly great books missing from the NYT collection.

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So Many Selves, So Little Time

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The Odyssey, Talk of the Nation, Daniel Chaon, Dalai Lama, The Bible, Weeds, President Obama, Janet Maslin, Superman, Mad Men, Npr, Robert Frost, Michele Bachmann, George Steinbrenner, Sarah Palin, CBS News, Glenn Beck, Clark Kent, Shakespeare, New York Times, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

President Obama is a Kenyan or a Muslim -- or a Kenyan Muslim -- masquerading as an American Christian. The Dalai Lama is an undercover Nazi agent. Ma...

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Columbine and the End of Journalism: New York Times on Columbine

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: New York Times Book Review, Columbine Book, Columbine Anniversary, Columbine, Janet Maslin, New York Times, Media Criticism, Frank Rich, Denver News
Jeff Kass

The New York Times, the paper of record, had a mixed bag when it came to handling the ten-year anniversary of the Columbine shootings.

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Columbine and the End of Journalism: A Daily Blog Series, Part III

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Columbine: A True Crime Story, Columbine Book, Columbine Anniversary, Jeff Kass, Hunter S. Thompson, Basement Tapes, Janet Maslin, Ramin Setoodeh, Media Criticism, Truman Capote, Newsweek, Phil Graham, Denver News
Jeff Kass

The lesson on this Columbine anniversary that hits April 20 may not come from the shootings themselves. But rather, how the media has covered the shootings since the ten-year anniversary last year.

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Missing The Mark On Warren Beatty

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Academy Awards, Hume Cronyn, Alan J. Pakula, Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Faye Dunaway, Best Movies on DVD, Diane Keaton, Best Movies by Farr, Gene Hackman, Peter Biskind, Cary Grant, Oliver Platt, Tiger Woods Affair, Natalie Wood, Julie Christie, Halle Berry, Warren Beatty, Bonnie and Clyde, Annette Bening, Jack Warner, Robert Altman, Vivien Leigh, Jack Nicholson, Elia Kazan, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

Why does the media who cover Warren Beatty's work assume the topic I care most about with regard to this highly accomplished figure is how many women he slept with? It's insulting, in a way, isn't it?

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Clash of Titans: Anderson Vs. Gladwell

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Chris Anderson, Malcolm Gladwell, Free, Janet Maslin, Media News
Charles Warner

After reading Gladwell's review (which, to Anderson's point and ironically, is free on the New Yorker's website), I got the distinct impression that Gladwell was being a little jealous and piqued.

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Chicks on the Beach, or Why Does the Cover Preoccupy You So?

Joanne Rendell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: J.Courtney Sullivan, Lisa See, Romance, Books, Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Chick Lit, Sarah Wendell, Candy Tan, Media News
Joanne Rendell

Chick-books love shoes and if you're going to talk shoe-talk you kind of deserve your blah cover. If your book presents "cozy" female friends "weathering crises" together then you've also earned the sandals and Adirondack chair treatment. And if one of your characters dares to admit that she likes "a pink cover featuring a pair of glossy high-heeled shoes," you most definitely should have flowers and pastel shades on your dust jacket.

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