Who Killed the Book Review?

Newspaper Book Coverage Is Dying, but Don’t Hold a Funeral for Literary Culture

Ages ago I was in Washington, D.C., for meetings with some of my authors who lived and worked in town. One invited me to the Washington Times HQ where he worked and was excited to show me the office of his colleague, the books editor.

Her office—this was about twenty years ago, but I’m pretty sure I remember the editor was a woman—was packed, hoarders-st…