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Panel: The Case of the Vanishing Book Review
CJR Panel on the Crisis in the Coverage of Books: Tonight
By The EditorsIn the cover article of the September issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, Steve Wasserman, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, takes on the case of the vanishing coverage of books. Springing from that article, CJR will present a panel discussion on the subject—at 7 p.m on Tuesday, September 18 in the third-floor lecture hall of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The discussion will feature five leading figures of the book world.
The Panelists:
• Steve Wasserman worked for fourteen years at the Los Angeles Times, five in the opinion department and nine as editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Wasserman is managing director of the New York office of the literary agency Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson.
• Peter Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs, an independent publisher, a former Washington Post correspondent and editor, and vice chairman of CJR.
• Elisabeth Sifton is an editor and senior vice president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She is the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War.
• Carlin Romano, the longtime books editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, is the literary critic for the paper.
• Mark Sarvas is host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation, and a widely published book reviewer and critic.
7 p.m. on Tuesday 9/18 in the third-floor Lecture Hall of Columbia University’s School of Journalism, 116th and Broadway.
No RSVP Required.
Please join us if you can.
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