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By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 12/04/12 5:04pm

Times Book Critic Dwight Garner Skewers Martin Amis Bio

New York Times book critic Dwight Garner has no kind words for Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford. But if Mr. Garner did not enjoy the reading experience, which he described as ”like watching a moose try to describe a leopard, using only its front hooves,” well, he sure seemed to enjoy panning it.

The biography “is mortifying in its dullness and lack of instinctive feeling for its subject.” Part of this is due to Mr. Bradford’s writing. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/23/12 10:15am

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A Partial List of Allusions in the Times’s Paterno Review

Without any of these cultural artifacts, Dwight Garner would have been unable to review the new biography of disgraced football coach Joe Paterno: Read More

By John Koblin 11/06/08 5:32pm

Times Plucks Travel Editor for the Book Review

The New York Times has hired internally to replace Dwight Garner at The Book Review after he moved to the daily reviewing beat. The nod goes to Laura Marmor, a deputy editor for the Travel Section. In her new job as Senior Editor, she’ll be making a "broad range of review assignments" and help Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 10/13/08 5:49pm

Dwight Garner on The Times’ Daily Book Reviewers in 1996: ‘They Calcify Quickly’; Ten Years Later Critic is Contrite

Two things curious about Dwight Garner’s new gig as daily book critic at The New York Times: One is that he had some not very nice things to say about his new colleagues back in 1996 when he worked at Salon, and two is his 1998 profile of Michiko Kakutani, where he Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 10/13/08 3:26pm

Longtime Times Book Review Senior Editor Dwight Garner to Join Kakutani and Maslin in Daily Paper

Dwight Garner, by far the most visible editor at The New York Times Book Review, told the folks over at the National Book Critics Circle on Friday that he’s leaving the job and joining the rotation over at the daily paper’s Arts section. Mr. Garner confirmed in an e-mail this morning that he’ll soon be Read More

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Times Book Critic Dwight Garner Skewers Martin Amis Bio

A Partial List of Allusions in the Times’s Paterno Review

Times Plucks Travel Editor for the Book Review

Dwight Garner on The Times’ Daily Book Reviewers in 1996: ‘They Calcify Quickly’; Ten Years Later Critic is Contrite

Longtime Times Book Review Senior Editor Dwight Garner to Join Kakutani and Maslin in Daily Paper

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