A Farewell To Bad Books
In a recent article published in The Washington Post, author Jonathan Karp says there are too many books these days — and too many bad books at that. According to Karp, the selections include "self-aggrandizing memoirs by recovering addicts; poignant portraits of heroic pets; [and] hyperbolic ideological tracts by insufferable cable TV pundits."
The publisher and editor-in-chief of Twelve explains why most of these disposable books will inevitably wind up in the bargain bin — or, more likely, in the mulcher.
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