At The New York Times' 'Times Insider' Susan Lehman has a Book Reviewer Tell-All: Dwight Garner on Reading, Reviewing and Avoiding Blindness with The New York Times' book reviewer.
Always of interest to me: how many books other reviewers/outlets have to deal with -- and Garner says: "I get about 25 books a day in the mail". By comparison, I -- admittedly better able to keep the unsolicited titles at bay -- have gotten 466 review copies to (yesterday's) date in 2014 -- less than a book and a half a day; at a 25-per-day rate I would be entombed in my apartment in short order (admittedly: not the worst fate I could imagine) -- I can barely handle sorting, and especially deaccessioning, from the trickle I do get .....
(By further comparison: I have reviewed 173 books to date in 2014 -- not many less than have been reviewed in the daily edition of The New York Times so far this year .....)
Always of interest to me: how many books other reviewers/outlets have to deal with -- and Garner says: "I get about 25 books a day in the mail". By comparison, I -- admittedly better able to keep the unsolicited titles at bay -- have gotten 466 review copies to (yesterday's) date in 2014 -- less than a book and a half a day; at a 25-per-day rate I would be entombed in my apartment in short order (admittedly: not the worst fate I could imagine) -- I can barely handle sorting, and especially deaccessioning, from the trickle I do get .....
(By further comparison: I have reviewed 173 books to date in 2014 -- not many less than have been reviewed in the daily edition of The New York Times so far this year .....)