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Criticism & Features

September 7, 2008

Conversations

Wilfrid Sheed on the Ideal Book Reviewer

By NBCC

“The ideal reviewer writes no books at all, lives outside New York but doesn’t resent New York, has no credentials—because every credential is a trap. He simply—well, how to put it?—has an interest in books.”

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