La musa

Poetry geeks will enjoy the hide and seek references to poets and authors in this slightly rambling but likeable jaunt into books and publishing, although Galassi tends to end up in more rabbit holes than necessary in his earnest attempts to please. Still, there’s a lot of fun to be had here if you d Leggi tutto

Many of the poor notices given to MUSE allude to the boredom of it. It is true, it is boring. But while remaining an incontrovertible defect, this is surely one of its lesser offenses to good aesthetic judgment. Firstly, it is strange that an editor writes a book that is filled so uniformly with cli Leggi tutto

Unless you are an elder employee of a large publishing company or a highly published, wealthy author familiar with the history of the publishing industry, you will struggle to find an enjoyable aspect of this book until about 3/4 of the way through where the characters become more important than the Leggi tutto

Writing a critical word about anything having to do with anything even close to Jonathan Galassi feels like sacrilege to this publishing industry veteran...so let it suffice to say here that this book is a publishing geek's delight, and a common reader's disappointment. The inside-baseball goss abou Leggi tutto

Galassi's Muse has dramatic characters but no drama. The novel is a pageant of egotistical editors, mercurial publishers, narcissistic writers, enigmatic poets—but none of this ever turns into a compelling narrative. Its intriguing premise fails to build narrative intrigue; there is mystery but neve Leggi tutto

"This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books, with glued or even sewn bindings, cloth or paper covers with beautiful or not-so-beautiful jackets and a musty, dusty, wonderful smell; when books furnished many a room, and their conten Leggi tutto

'Musa' es una novela en clave sobre el mundo de la edición independiente que no oculta sus miserias, un canto a una época que las grandes empresas de Internet acaban devorando al tiempo que se acaban sus páginas. Pero también es la historia de una fascinación por los escritores, por hacer colección Leggi tutto

Didn't finish. This book seems to be the self involved musings of a publisher and poet trying to prove that he knows more than anyone about publishing and poets. I'm convinced but bored to tears. No thanks

I expected this take on the inner workings of the publishing industry, written by someone who has been on both sides of the fence, as a publisher and a poet, to be snarky and all-knowing. What I did not expect is how charming and delightful a novel it is. Muse is a love letter to the halcyon days of Leggi tutto