So Akira Yoshimura, who is a best seller, a prizewinner and a literary doyen in his native Japan, has his readers off balance right from the start in this neat, bleak novel.
Yes? Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning "American Pastoral" (1997), despite its many lively and sharply observed passages, was, to this reader, a falling off from the three books before it.
The title, too, may throw readers off.
How could I cut myself off from readers like that?
As advertising shifts to programmatic models and prices continue to drop for inventory, and readers simply get turned off from the cascade of noise on a page, many sites have been pushing into the idea of paid or sponsored content as a complement to other kinds of revenue models.
That means Mr. Conroy, who was laid off from The Reader in 2007, is once again without a job, at least in journalism.
I've potentially cut myself off from new readers, and it's likely I've made people angry too.
We asked our readers what's putting them off from cycling to work, and we received a deluge of responses.
Annotated printed books in Firestone Library... show just how richly rewarding it can be to examine the sparks that texts struck off from early readers.
Reviewers don't like to admit that they're influenced by such factors, but unless they live cut off from other readers, writers, and critics entirely, they can't really help it.
