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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:18:15 -0500
In a way, it is like email. We can all remember a time (perhaps many times ) when we wrote something, had a doubt about it, but went ahead and presse d "send" -- only to deeply regret having sent those words out to the world . We authors are asking reviewers who feel that same wash of uncertainty, that same concern that they may not quite have been fair, that same inkli ng that the've been hasty-- to pause and look back at the book once again. Speaking again for nonfiction -- the ideas you see in a book may be new to you, distressing to you, may contradict what you always thought or lea rned in college -- if that is so, make sure you are not letting your unexa mined past knowledge judge an author's new research. The author may be wro ng, but be sure you know that, rather than just suspect it may be so.
Marc Aronson
Received on Sun 15 Nov 2009 10:18:15 AM CST
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:18:15 -0500
In a way, it is like email. We can all remember a time (perhaps many times ) when we wrote something, had a doubt about it, but went ahead and presse d "send" -- only to deeply regret having sent those words out to the world . We authors are asking reviewers who feel that same wash of uncertainty, that same concern that they may not quite have been fair, that same inkli ng that the've been hasty-- to pause and look back at the book once again. Speaking again for nonfiction -- the ideas you see in a book may be new to you, distressing to you, may contradict what you always thought or lea rned in college -- if that is so, make sure you are not letting your unexa mined past knowledge judge an author's new research. The author may be wro ng, but be sure you know that, rather than just suspect it may be so.
Marc Aronson
Received on Sun 15 Nov 2009 10:18:15 AM CST
