This article was reprinted with permission from Middlebury, the Middlebury College alumni magazine. The original version was published in the Summer 2016 issue. There’s a saying in the literary world: If you want your book to get a bad notice, have a friend review it. Under the guise of bending over backward to be fair, some envy […]
Dwight Garner
Dwight Garner is a book critic for the New York Times, writing about fiction, nonfiction, poetry and the book world writ large.
