No Love in the Club for the New York Times

Ron Hogan (author of this winter's white-hot The Stewardess is Flying the Plane: American Films of the 1970s) asked me to comment on a piece in the New York Times Book Review, for Mediabistro's Galleycat publishing blog, which, as always, I was happy to do. To wit:

"I find it hard to believe that savvy authors would wait until several weeks or months into the post-publication stage of the life of their book to consider hiring an independent publicist who can help balance their objectives and resources and map out a comprehensive, strategic campaign, but perhaps some do, and they're the ones that will find solace in this insipid article. I can't imagine any other reason for printing it."

There's definitely more to be said on the subject: "Perish" the Thought.