and we also have service awards for people who have done tremendous acts of service on behalf of the nbcc, as well as institutions and literature and culture, poetry more broadly and booktv covers those awards every year. mr. roeser, when people hear the word critic, they think critical often. is that is that a fair comparison? i think so. i like to think of my own writing, though, as exuberantly neutral, like i'm not trying to heavily praise or heavily slam a book. i just want to think very deeply and intently about the artist's doing and try to explain to the reader why that moves me or why it does it. but yeah, i guess that requires a bit of like, you know, terror of things apart, a lot of dog ears and book darts and all that post-its. so what makes a good review and what do you see as a mistake in reviewing a book? well, that's a good question. you know, when i talk to my students because i come from a hard news background, they're this idea of balance, right. but i think often in a review, when a reviewer without a balance, it's these competing interests or tensions, they're out of w

and we also have service awards for people who have done tremendous acts of service on behalf of the nbcc, as well as institutions and literature and culture, poetry more broadly and booktv covers those awards every year. mr. roeser, when people hear the word critic, they think critical often. is that is that a fair comparison? i think so. i like to think of my own writing, though, as exuberantly neutral, like i'm not trying to heavily praise or heavily slam a book. i just want to think very deeply and intently about the artist's doing and try to explain to the reader why that moves me or why it does it. but yeah, i guess that requires a bit of like, you know, terror of things apart, a lot of dog ears and book darts and all that post-its. so what makes a good review and what do you see as a mistake in reviewing a book? well, that's a good question. you know, when i talk to my students because i come from a hard news background, they're this idea of balance, right. but i think often in a review, when a reviewer without a balance, it's these competing interests or tensions, they're out of w