This one goes out to any author who’s ever felt bad about not making it onto a list of most anticipated books of the season. And to their publicists.
The book preview list is a highly imperfect form of coverage that seems to be, along with best-of the year lists, the most widely used kind of book reportage in media. With overall book coverage being pared down at most outlets, such lists have grown widely outsized in importance for authors and publishers and readers, as well as the writers who contribute punchy blurbs to them.
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