Bookreporter talks to Book Reporters

Over at Bookreporter Carol Fitzgerald interviews four prominent book journalists and asks them some pretty tough questions such as:

What book(s) that you read this year would you have liked to have seen nominated for a National Book Award in the fiction and/or nonfiction categories?

And

There is a huge disconnect between what people are reading and what is winning prizes. Industry professionals have noted this gap since the beginning of the mass audience. But is this gap widening now? If so, why?

The participants in the roundtable are Charlotte Abbott, Book News Editor of Publishers Weekly; Bob Minzesheimer, Book Reviewer and Publishing Reporter of USA Today; Sam Tanenhaus, Editor of the New York Times Book Review; and Steve Wasserman, Editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

The answers are often revealing and depending on your own point of view, sometimes disturbing, but definitely worth reading.