Better Still
OME time ago I noted rather warily an impfovement in the quality of Book Shop. Since then this has become so marked that it calls for further and warmer comment. Sarah Campion has been evolving a new pattern in which some of the more important books are given far more time than used to be normal. There is also, usually, more than one opinion, and the reviews often take the form of interviews or conversations. With a careful choice of knowledgable speakers and Miss Campion’s own tact in helping things along, the tedium which might attend a long review is avoided. This new policy culminated in the two sessions devoted entirely to Father Huddleston’s Naught for Your Comfort, when Book Shop brought off a scoop with the anti-Huddleston, proapartheid speech bythe assistant-man-ager of the Springboks-a performance which was enlightening in more ways than Mr. de Villiers intended. This was the only time I have known a daily paper print a long report of a broadcast discussion. The following week Book Shop gave us Allen Curnow’s remarkably frank review of Brinnin’s Dylan Thomas in America. We can hardly expect every edition to maintain this standard, but even bread-and-butter re‘viewing is more palatable if it is not the only fare,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 23
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210Better Still New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 23
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