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In 1959 Elizabeth Hardwick, novelist, reviewer, and wife of poet Robert Lowell, wrote a pointed critique of the book reviewing industry. She noted that the most trusted of review organs, the New York Times Book Review<\/em>, was remarkable only for \u201cthe flat praise and the faint dissension, the minimal style and the light little article, the absence of involvement, passion, character, eccentricity \u2014 the lack, at last, of the literary tone itself.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

That was 1959. The year is now 2017 and coming to a close, and that means it\u2019s time for me to come to you, hat in hand, to ask for your support for Dactyl Review<\/em><\/a>, a literary<\/em> fiction book review created by and for the literary community. If sixty years ago literary reviewers had begun to dwindle, as Hardwick noted, in the following decades we have seen the disappearance of the literary reader, the literary writer\u2019s habitat. You may think rightly of this as an appeal to save an endangered species.<\/p>\n

Every year, about this time, I try to explain why literariness matters, why we all need a little poetics in our lives. You can find some of these appeals here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>. The same still goes for 2018. Please be as generous as you can. We\u2019ve got some great authors and reviewers here who need readers. And your donation is tax-deductible.
\n-VN Alexander, Editor<\/p>\n


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