Social media is changing the way writers are promoting their books. Author Rebecca Makkai talks about her decision to take a ...

The Merch-ification of Book Publishing The Year of the Slim Volume Behind the Scenes of Barack Obama’s Reading Lists That quote from Cosby is what’s known as a book blurb, or more commonly ...

And that reveals another dirty secret of the blurb: They’re not addressed to you. “The biggest thing to understand is that blurbs aren’t principally, or even really at all, aimed at the ...

The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Kai Ryssdal: For those unfamiliar with the blurb economy — and first of all, there is a blurb economy — how does it work?

Maya Angelou’s invented blurb read, “After reading this book, I know what the caged bird will be crapping on.” I thought it was sort of fun, but I was having my cake and eating it too.

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. For the past few months ...

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I saw Arthur at a party the next year and told him that the deadline for the blurb for my next book was April 15, but that if he didn’t have time to compose a fresh one, I’d use the old one ...