Pulitzer-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen would have preferred that his forthcoming book, The Committed, have no praise-laden blurbs at all, he says. “Kill it. Bury it. Dance on its grave.

A thoughtful or striking blurb, a genuine endorsement, can make all the difference ... “It takes a lot of time to produce great books, and trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone ...

And that reveals another dirty secret of the blurb: They’re not addressed ... so many that you wonder how they find time to read all these books and keep up the day job too,” the critic ...

By the time a blurb gets to the reader ... the way the agent is getting the publishing community to read this book ahead of all the other thousands of books on submission at that time." ...

It took a long time. I wrote the blurb, and they said thank you ... Social media can't do it all for every book." BookTok and Bookstagram have become large communities for readers.

You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something ... Kai Ryssdal: For those unfamiliar with the blurb economy — and first of all, there is a blurb economy — how does it work?

Shteyngart admits that he hasn’t fully read all the books ... competing for our time and attention, Shteyngart feels compelled to help quality books get exposure. With a blurb, “you’re ...

“A Faulkner for our time!” “Can’t put it down!” “An up-all-night thriller!” At some point, you have to wonder: if so many books are being ... the tent with a blurb ...

Folks, it’s time to talk about blurbs ... 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 ...

Second, I got a blurb request for a friend through ... a linguist and translator — and managed only two of the books on my list all year. Every time I tried to pick up the Eritrean novella ...