It may be that they want someone from outside the literary establishment, to bring some fresh air to the process, I don't know. The article that I read said that, under her editorship, more space is being taken up by the various "best seller" lists and less space is given to long book reviews. I don't know - I don't run into the NYTBR very often - they don't tend to review the kinds of books I read (genre books, mostly).
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