Posted on 01/12/07
100-plus
Dear readers, publishers, booksellers, editors, publicists and other interested parties:Can't find your favourite book of 2007 in this year's Globe 100? Perplexed or vexed by the editor's choices, which may seem to you capricious, perverse or just dumb? Rest assured, your editors have agonized - I do not exaggerate; the pain is physical - in winnowing the year's best to a mere fivescore. This involves a combination of gut-wrenching triage, tearful callousness, second-guesses and regrets. Example: Have we given small presses their due? This year, I would say: Probably not.
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