Author Bronwyn Corrigan's new book, Canada’s ABC’s Of Who I Can Be, highlights 26 Canadian women and non-binary athletes.

Lucky Day is weird, compelling—and very surprising, coming from the author of My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass.

At turns poignant and pitiable, a writer’s quest for affirmation in a blurbless world leads him to seek statements of praise ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Ocean Vuong’s books are enormously popular but it’s hard to see why. He is often an incompetent writer of prose and his plots are sentimental mush. The Emperor of Gladness (note twee title) is ...

A “blurb” (also known as a “quote”) is an endorsement, often from another author, celebrity or public figure, which publishers include on the covers and inside pages of new books.

Vladimir Nabokov would have killed for a blurb from literary critic friend. Keystone Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he ...

Several authors have reported that the sheer volume of requests for blurbs they receive is unsustainable. Many write them out a sense of obligation, rather than because they are genuinely enthused.

“I do agree that the blurb ecosystem is a scourge,” novelist Jami Attenberg wrote in an email, referring to Manning’s essay. “So many of my author friends complain about the time we spend on it!” Do ...

The weeks leading up to a release can be long and exhaustive, with questionnaires, blurb requests, and audiobook recordings to take care of.

Worthy Of Their BlurbsMillennium Trilogy (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest), Stieg Larsson This has been the year of ...

Reading short blurbs on social media as we scroll inhibits not only our attention span, making lengthy books more arduous for our dopamine -addicted brains to digest, but often waters down the ...