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." ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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?

But what really got me to read her book over all of the many unread ... blurbs would consume so much of her time as a successful author. “I'm asked to blurb FAR more books than I could actually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.