An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Rachel Syme is a writer with a massive audience. But one of her favorite ways to write is much more personal. Syme is a devotee of the ancient art of “correspondence” — better known as letter-writing.

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For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

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