{"id":2328,"date":"2010-07-09T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2010-10-27T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:07:13","slug":"girl-crazy-lame-book-blurbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/09\/girl-crazy-lame-book-blurbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Crazy, Lame Book Blurbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><em>Girls. I&#8217;m girl crazy. It&#8217;s &#8217;cause it&#8217;s summer. I&#8217;d like to calm myself down. What should I do?<\/em> \u2014Ronnie<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Ronnie. One feels you. I take it you\u2019ve tried <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/dept-of-sex-ed-between-the-sheets-with-ignatius-reilly\/\">self-love<\/a> and cold showers? If all else fails and you hear the first garbage trucks and all you want is a moment of oblivion\u2014of surcease\u2014what you need is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/the-end-of-march\/\">boring books<\/a>. I keep a stash for just such occasions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/History-America-Administrations-Jefferson-Library\/dp\/0940450348\"><em>A History of the United States During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson<\/em><\/a>, by Henry Adams. My intellectual friends tell me it\u2019s a masterpiece. I have never got past page six.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Gardener-Review-Books-Classics\/dp\/1590172310\/\"><em>The Education of a Gardener<\/em><\/a>, by Russell Page: \u201cWere I working out a rectangular theme, for instance, I would not hesitate to introduce diagonals or curves if these were justified by expediency, or if their introduction contributed to reinforce that same theme by contrast. On the contrary, a composition all curves and irregular forms might well demand certain rigidities, certain angularities in detail are you listening to me ronnie no you are not because you are fast asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Complete-Guide-Furniture-Styles\/dp\/0881339393\/\"><em>The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles<\/em><\/a>, by Louise Ade Boger. This one is new to my collection. I got it off the two-dollar cart at the Strand last week and already I have found it an indispensible settler of the mind. I know what you\u2019re thinking: for a diseased one-track Bonobo like yourself, it\u2019s only the tiniest baby-step from furniture to sex. Trust me. Ms. Boger is an artist. She was bored writing the thing, bored shitless from sentence one, and she manages to communicate that feeling to the reader in real time. To say <em>The Complete Guide to Furniture Styles<\/em> is 427 pages long is to say nothing. The pages are giant; the text bicolumniar; the black-and-white plates, for all intents and purposes, useless. Reading <em>The Complete Guide<\/em> is like popping six Ambien and hitting yourself on the head with a brick. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>I&#8217;d like to ask one of my favorite writers to coffee or a drink, with the hope that maybe he&#8217;ll blurb my new book. Is that totally, completely lame? <\/em> \u2014S. Gery.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my friend, that is lame. In my experience blurbs almost never sell books. The person they matter most to is the writer. But if you want your hero\u2019s approval, wouldn\u2019t you rather have it on the merits? Send him a copy of the finished book with a note saying, in concrete detail, what his writing has meant to you. Authors almost never get such disinterested praise; you\u2019ll have done the two of you a mitzvah.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a question for <\/em>The Paris Review? <em><a href=\"mailto:advice@theparisreview.org\">E-mail<\/a> us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls. I&#8217;m girl crazy. It&#8217;s &#8217;cause it&#8217;s summer. I&#8217;d like to calm myself down. What should I do? \u2014Ronnie Oh, Ronnie. One feels you. I take it you\u2019ve tried self-love and cold showers? 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