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Books Literary Blurbs: The Documentary
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:24 PM
Edward Champion has directed and edited a fifteen-minute documentary about Gary Shteyngart's side-career as a prolific writer of blurbs. There's some annoying literary insider-type jokes here, but it's mostly a serious consideration of how blurbs have become devalued. And the bit with A.M. Homes and the squirrel made me squeal at my desk.
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