{"id":4431,"date":"2024-08-04T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:13:29","slug":"blurb-your-enthusiasm-louise-willder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2024\/08\/04\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-louise-willder\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurb Your Enthusiasm \u2013 Louise Willder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-687x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-768x1145.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-1030x1536.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/blurb-your-enthusiasm.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lots of short pieces relating to the art of the blurb. Initially the pieces seemed fairly light and amusing enough. But I thought the book got better towards the end, with a few pieces on related topics like publishing, cover art and children\u2019s books. Wilder also covers tricky areas like psychology and blurbing books dealing with sensitive or controversial subjects (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2020\/12\/15\/lolita-vladimir-nabokov\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4059\"><em>Lolita<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also appreciated her discussion of Zadie Smith\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2024\/08\/20\/white-teeth-zadie-smith\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4434\"><em>White Teeth<\/em><\/a>, since I happened to be reading that at the same time. Wilder seems to like it more than I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From actual blurb-writing, to publishing and translation, this book covered much more ground than I thought it would. I now have much more appreciation for blurb-writers.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of short pieces relating to the art of the blurb. Initially the pieces seemed fairly light and amusing enough. But I thought the book got better towards the end, with a few pieces on related topics like publishing, cover &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2024\/08\/04\/blurb-your-enthusiasm-louise-willder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,247,102],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-louise-willder","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}