It must be great to be published.
Do critics really read the work they review?
"How [do] I explain the enormous popular success of Robert James Waller's Madison County books? Although I haven't read either The Bridges of Madison County or Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, I answer with full confidence: . . .
— Sven Birkerts, Gutenberg Elegies, 203
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