An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian ... insanely aggressive terms. “If you do not answer,” he wrote, “or if you ...