Brilliant, moving, thought-provoking! Simon & Schuster is dispensing with book blurbs – will it make any difference?
- Written by Julian Novitz, Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
Lightpoet/ShutterstockIt is rare to see a newly published book that doesn’t come with a ringing endorsement from at least one or two familiar names. Well known authors will laud a new title as “brilliant”, “moving” or “thought-provoking” and testify that they were “unable to put it down”...





