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SoFlo: LOCAL BOOK CHATTER -

As has been mentioned elsewhere, newspapers are shuffling, phasing out, or reorganizing their book sections.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Trib) has folded its Book Section into the Health and Family Section, which was my least favorite section I wouldn't touch with a barge pole. What are the implications of this? This move may mean the appearance of ads from the big pharmaceutical companies among the books. The resulting section looked like a mess to me last Sunday. I didn't like it. Moreover, most of the reviews looked like they were cannibalized from other newspapers at random.

The Miami Herald, last Sunday featured a book review for Nathan Englander's new book by a Florida professor. Overall, it was a nice review, but the first half of the last paragraph should have been excised, because, in closing, the professor injected a crackpot conspiracy theory into it. The review would have been much better off without it. [mherald]

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