A Review of the Reviewers' Reviewers.

New West Network | By Allen M. Jones :: Browsing the Book Blogs: " On one side, you�ve got an entrenched community of cultural aesthetes (the corp of print reviewers) who spend their days creating and destroying careers. (A Kakutani rave and you�ve just made rent for the next ten years; a Yardley pan and you might as well dig out the old Wal-Mart nametag.) On the other side (trumpet blare), from out of the amorphous sludge of zeroes and ones, we see arising a new community, a collective of self-appointed watchdogs, keyboard jockies, late night inadvertent ascetics who spend their wee hours pronouncing on the pronouncers. Does it really matter that some of these folks can�t write for free cheese? "