"Where I was asked for a blurb by the editor of this book. I dropped everything. I read this book. It took a long time. I wrote the blurb, and they said thank you, and it didn't go on the book." ...

you might want to pick up Dusti Bowling’s “24 Hours in Nowhere,” which was published in 2018 by Sterling Children’s Books. Maybe not quite as harrowing as some of Paulsen’s stories ...

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a love affair ignites”; the original 1992 blurb began “Written on the Body is a book for the human condition.”) The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory ...

VCS Department Chair Tom Huhn recently wrote a blurb for the book Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History by William S. Allen, with was published in earlier this year by Bloomsbury Academic press. Here ...

As a reader, though, an interesting blurb can be as effective as a striking book cover, especially when you’re browsing in a bookstore, trying to decide between several tempting choices.

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Ryssdal: Yeah, you’ll pay that price. There’s no requirement that people actually have read the book, right, when they blurb? Grady: Basically, no. It’s kind of an honor system situation.

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. For the past few months ...

And yet I ended up with 18 books to blurb in the summer and fall alone. I realized I needed a hard-line no blurbs policy. If I make one exception, I’ll make 50. Second, I got a blurb request for ...