A Book Review by Janet Malcolm
Of course you should click through and read it. It’s a book review by Janet Malcolm. Yes, Janet Malcolm. In the New York Review of Books. The Master Writer of the City is Malcolm’s review of a biography of a writer, Joseph Mitchell. And in the course of the review Malcolm writes about writing. That…
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Excellent review of a new biography about Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, here at the New York Review of Books. The review lucidly explains some of Amazon’s troubling corporate practices, and Amazon’s impact on the publishing industry. He is not an easy man to caricature. In Stone’s portrait, he is nerdy, dreamy, prescient, and…