Comments on: Backscratching in Our Time — Gloria Steinem and J. Courtney Sullivan http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/backscratching-in-our-time-gloria-steinem-and-j-courtney-sullivan/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/backscratching-in-our-time-gloria-steinem-and-j-courtney-sullivan/#comment-7698 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:32:06 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=14941#comment-7698 Wouldn’t be surprised if Madonna had engaged in this backscratching. Some of the people who do are the ones you’d think would need it least.

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/backscratching-in-our-time-gloria-steinem-and-j-courtney-sullivan/#comment-7696 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:41:36 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=14941#comment-7696 I was just telling Madonna the other day that I can’t believe how life is “forcing” all of us to become PR flaks by doing all of this expedient name dropping and turn-about-is-fair-play blurbing.

It’s been around forever. One of my favorite discussions about it comes from “The End of Intelligent Writing: Literary Politics in America” written back in 1974 by Richard Kostelanetz where he takes writers to task for reviewing each other’s books in a rather in-grown, sick environment.

Malcolm

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