On the epidemic of niceness in online book culture
7 August 2012 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
In an article at Slate, US writer Jacob Silverman argues that today’s online book culture has become a ‘mutual admiration society’ that discourages criticism and dissent. He writes: ‘If you spend time in the literary Twitter- or blogospheres, you'll be positively besieged by amiability, by a relentless enthusiasm that might...
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