Cross-posted from Kathryn Cramer.
My husband, David Hartwell, is quoted in Ron Hogan's new Publishers Weekly article "Too Geeky for Its Own Good?" on the new New York Times science fiction reviewer David Itzkoff (pictured below):
And some sci-fi publishers still see Itzkoff's column as a hopeful sign. Among them is David Hartwell, the Tor senior editor who worked on Counting Heads. "In these difficult days, an enthusiastic reviewer for science fiction is a gem," he notes, citing Michael Dirda of the Washington Post as the nation's only top-notch book reviewer willing to discuss SF novels seriously. "There isn't anybody like that at the Times
and never has been. They just can't get beyond the modernist separation
of high art and low art. I like Itzkoff's enthusiasm, though, and I'm
interested in seeing how he develops as a reviewer. I would like to
have somebody at the New York Times promoting the idea that
science fiction might be fun to read." (Gerald Jonas's one-page column
of capsule reviews, after running on a near-monthly basis for years,
began to slowly disappear once Sam Tanenhaus took over the Review.)
Hogan also posted material that didn't make it into the final piece on his blog, Galleycat. See also Emerald City & The Mumpsimus.
