Book review review review

"...authors are compelled to write in ways that conform to gendered and racialized expectations or the apparently unrelenting public desire for more trauma memoirs. By reinforcing in its content the worst trends in publishing, the Book Review ultimately perpetuates the material inequality so prevalent in the publishing world."

Here's what I got when I googled gendered expectations. "girls and women are generally expected to dress in typically feminine ways and be polite, accommodating, and nurturing." from Planned Parenthood. I guess I learned something. 

What are radicalized expectations? Subvert the status quo, could be good, could be bad. 

"perpetuates the material inequality" um, so whatever the publishing industry does, the books reviews do the same thing because they perpetuate the system. 

I probably share the radical left wing hopes she has. 

Maybe this is what she wants, got this from her tweet:

My review of the review review in Current Affairs written by Yasmin Nair: I want more information about her revolution. 

I always want people to say read here instead of there because... People just are against things, without replacing them. I'll have to read more of her to understand what she wants. 

I'll be honest, I don't really read the book review, I don't find much, but occasionally I'm interested in a book, and the review mostly sends me away from the book by criticizing it. Not enough. 

"[H]ow and why does the Book Review, an armageddon-era cockroach scuttling around in the long shadows of nuclear towers, survive?" 

"very liberal mindset rather than any kind of truly left perspective" woof, she's really skewing people. 

She says it has an cultural influence even though, "Reading the Book Review is a joyless task because it is mostly so massively, stiflingly dull. There is a sameness and a flatness to the reviews, held as they are to some invisible set of Times “standards,” the most obvious one of which seems to be, “Never be interesting.”" The crime of boredom is pretty unforgivable.

Her article links to another radical writer, Hamilton Nolan and now I've got two new awesome people to follow.

She gives her list of the outlets she generally dislikes, the faintest praise to London Review of Books.

"The New York Times is not a paper of record as much as a guide to class assimilation and ascension: to read and absorb the Times is to learn (or so people hope) how to exist in a world that is in many ways brought into existence by the Times, one inhabited and controlled by the superrich."

Remember that name Yasmin Nair. Hype punctuating status quo journalism. She pushes for more intensity and depth, less maintaining the status quo and nepotism. 

I'm going to try harder to trumpet intense revolutionary books from small presses, outside the big 5 Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. Inspiring article Yasmin Nair.

I can't help but read the NY Times differently: A Timeline of the 21st Century Books Timeline. It's not an elevated or deep list, it's more like Teen Beat. I did get 2 books for my swollen and likely unread list of books to read.