Newspaper Book Reviews

Ever since the rumors began to fly that my hometown rag, the San Diego Union-Tribune was going to join the growing exit line for Sunday book sections, I've held judgment and mention. The L.A. Times raised enough noise, following local agent Sandra Dijkstra's supposed call-to-arms. If there really was a rally, it failed. The paper no longer has a six-page pull-out section. Rather, two pages of the Arts section are devoted to books with more white space and, I'm guessing, fewer advertisements. No quality improvement, either. Nonetheless, if you have a book to plug and want to send review copies to the papers, John Kremer makes available a neat, free list of more than 60 Newspaper Book Reviewers with names, addresses, phone numbers, and live links.