Books In the ‘Blurbosphere’

Some of the blurbs:

    acclaimed — eagerly awaited–meticulously researched–profoundly insightful–towering achievement–gripping–compelling–riveting– mesmerizing–phantasmagorical–a page-turner

William Safire muses about Charles McGrath’s recent uncovering of the literary noun – “blurbosphere”: ”the throbbing universe of book promotion,” coined on the analogy of blogosphere. Safire categorizes what he calls the “straining-to-sell world of book marketing” into the dull, the brilliant and those in between, from his NYT column “On Language”.