Blurbery

Blurbery

by Ursula K. Le Guin

After the sixteenth request last month to blurb a book, I lost count. They kept coming; there must have been about thirty in the month of October.Five of them came in the form of the novel itself arriving unsolicited in my postbox with a cover letter from the author or editor. The others are letters, mail or email, describing the book and requesting me to read and blurb it. They all express admiration of my work, and most seem to be familiar with it, though some so...