Posts Tagged ‘ arbitration of taste ’

Prizes Ain’t Prizes

Sam Cooney has an article about literary awards in the current issue of Voiceworks, and the critical take on such a holy grail inspired me to continue the conversation. I’ve touched on manuscript awards once before, and am regularly vocal, to people who ask, against wholesale acceptance of prizes as a wonderful and highly sought [ READ MORE ]

Critics With a Cause

My friend Felice posted me this link on Facebook: ‘Critical mess: whose ‘must see’ is it anyway?’ The article starts with a guy having a fight with his girlfriend because they have different expectations of art reviewers. She likes to rely on her own curiosity when choosing the film she’d like to see, and her own [ READ MORE ]

Inferiority Complex, Much?

I often read claims like this: So is YA taking over the grown-ups’ table? It’s a revealing question, steeped in the kind of condescension that assumes books aimed at young people are intrinsically of less cultural value than the real books, speculative or otherwise, that are ostensibly for adult readers. It’s also drenched in fear because, [ READ MORE ]

Ploughing Author Intentions

I have a question to ask that seems simple, but which grows increasingly complex when you think about it. How do you consider author intention when reviewing a novel? I’ve come up ambivalent about a book I’m reviewing. When this happens I like to make note of the positives and negatives and try to round up [ READ MORE ]

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