Comments on: On Negative Book Reviewing: Audio Interview with John Metcalf http://nigelbeale.com/2009/05/on-negative-book-reviewing-audio-interview-with-john-metcalf/ Musings on the Book, Literature, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Collecting, Media, Life and the Arts, and Audio Interviews from The Biblio File radio program pertaining to same by a writer, broadcaster, bibliophile. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:48:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ross McKie http://nigelbeale.com/2009/05/on-negative-book-reviewing-audio-interview-with-john-metcalf/comment-page-1/#comment-53458 Ross McKie Fri, 15 May 2009 17:50:48 +0000 http://nigelbeale.com/?p=3280#comment-53458 In listening to Mr Metcalf's "A Headmaster's Disgust" here, I was reminded of this simple assessment over here, http://tinyurl.com/quzkg2. A taste: "...Metcalf is much better at identifying symptoms than diagnosing the underlying illness, and he is no good at all at prescribing a cure – his beloved “aesthetic approach” to literature being just as likely to lead to empty, middlebrow doily-making as to James Joyce." Uh-oh. That's from Quill & Quire... In listening to Mr Metcalf’s “A Headmaster’s Disgust” here, I was reminded of this simple assessment over here, http://tinyurl.com/quzkg2.

A taste: “…Metcalf is much better at identifying symptoms than diagnosing the underlying illness, and he is no good at all at prescribing a cure – his beloved “aesthetic approach” to literature being just as likely to lead to empty, middlebrow doily-making as to James Joyce.”

Uh-oh. That’s from Quill & Quire…

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