Fusilli: Why I Quit Book Reviewing

Jim Fusilli quit his job reviewing crime fiction for the Boston Globe. “Writing that monthly column for the Globe was easily the worse job I’ve ever had, and this coming from a man once responsible for the nightly hamburger run for a dock’s worth of Teamsters. The assessment has nothing to do with the Globe or Boston, which, one could argue, is the epicenter of American crime fiction.” Why was it so bad? Too many books…