Gretchen Bellamy Kindly Reviewer

YOU CAN FIND EVIDENCE of Gretchen’s professional calling on the shelves of every high street bookshop. Not in the volumes themselves, but in the encomia reproduced on their jackets. Here she commends the latest Zadie Smith (“An urgent and passionate work that impels our immediate attention”.) There she appraises the new Barbara Kingsolver (“Of all this distinguished author’s oeuvre, possibly her most impressive achievement yet.”) Even Seven Tales of Slut-shaming, an avowedly challenging work by the experimental novelist Hepzibah Clang found her maintaining that its 400 pages of interior monologue printed in a variety of coloured inks was “not for the fainthearted, but take it from me Hep knows what’s she doing”. WHO SPONSORS THESE effusions? In the world of newspaper arts journalism, Gretchen is very nearly omnipresent. The Times…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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