From The New York Times...
Chances are you haven’t read Margery McIntyre Flood’s young adult oeuvre, which includes “You Can’t Do Anything Right,” “Mom’s Coffee Smells Like Gin” and “You Would if You Loved Me,” otherwise known as “the birth-control one.” Somehow you missed Jean Fung’s “Protracted” (“about hooking up and engineering at a prestigious university, written by the former sex columnist for The California Tech”) and Pamela McLaughlin’s “Strip Tease” (one of her popular Trang Martinez mysteries), Cubby Greenwich’s “One O’Clock Jump” and John Clitherow’s “Mr. Bluebird.”
Though all these titles appeared this year, you won’t find them at the bookshop or at the Kindle store, because they belong to what might be called the invisible library. This library contains books that exist only between the covers of other books — as descriptions, occasionally as brief excerpts, often simply as titles.
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Your books, Mr. Shipley, have dozens of titles in them. You should collect them, and then write a couple to add another layer of depth to your already profoundly deep novels. Better yet, you should write a sit-com script that takes place in a donut shop.
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