Posted
8:34 AM
by Gene
We understand
this shellacking of Book TV, but any fault lies not so much with Brian Lamb (who after all invented it as an extension of the late lamented
Booknotes) as with the publishing conspiracy, which is dead in the water with exquisitely boring non-fiction, and the Goddess Oprah, who if She did not invent the notion of reading as a penance, helped perfect it.
(Via ArtsJournal)