Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless ...

Gotcha, didn’t it? That line got me too. It’s from a blurb for The Plague, and the nameless copywriter deserves a plaque. Those five words conveyed all the ominous menace of the book and got there a ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

written the book review from which the blurb had been culled. There’s more to book blurbs than meets the eye. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto On the back of the same book were longer blurbs ...