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verycarefully's review
2.0
There are interesting insights to be had here, but overall the book suffers from lazy editing and poor structure. Quotes from interviews are used in the introductory blurb about each writer, so that the interview that follows feels repetitive; simple errors abound ('grizzly' for 'grisly', 'principle' for 'principal', etc); the word 'muckracking' appears so many times in the introduction that I could hardly bear to finish reading it.
The interviews/profiles are arranged alphabetically by subject's surname, and the book just comes to an abrupt stop at the end of Lawrence Wright's. Ultimately unsatisfying, this book is probably most useful as a source of nonfiction reading suggestions.
The interviews/profiles are arranged alphabetically by subject's surname, and the book just comes to an abrupt stop at the end of Lawrence Wright's. Ultimately unsatisfying, this book is probably most useful as a source of nonfiction reading suggestions.
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