An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Book’s gung ho about life after the breakup All those authors who are living under a false name and buying fake moustaches can now come out of hiding. There’s a chance they may no ...

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

Absolutely riveting” and “compelling.” “A must-read” and “a tour de force.” Blurbs, those haiku-length endorsements on every ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them ...