A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs (countercraft.substack.com)

A revelatory read that is surely going to end as up one of the year’s standouts. I didn’t expect the twist at the end!

"I believe the insistence on blurbs has become incredibly damaging to what should be our industry’s ultimate goal: producing books of the highest possible quality."

Certainly that should be the industry's ultimate goal. One might have a hard time inferring that from a visit to the local bookstore.