{"id":1342,"date":"2005-12-19T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/12\/notice_taken\/"},"modified":"2005-12-19T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:25:01","slug":"notice_taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/12\/notice_taken.html","title":{"rendered":"NOTICE TAKEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Calame, the public editor  of The New York Times, says his interest was piqued. His column on Sunday was headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/18\/opinion\/18publiceditor.html?hp\"  class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;The Book Review: Who Critiques Whom &#8212; and Why?&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a>  He wrote: &#8220;When The New York Times Book Review published its list of &#8220;100 Notable Books of the Year&#8221; earlier this month, calculations from several readers and bloggers soon turned up in my in-box.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/18\/opinion\/18publiceditor.html?hp\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Byron Calame, public editor of The New York Times\" [Photo: NYT] src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2005\/05\/20\/opinion\/calame.184.jpg\" width=100 align=left border=0 \/><\/a>We didn&#8217;t send him our Dec. 3 item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/12\/times_book_fave_1.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>TIMES BOOK FAVES AND A BIG NON-FAVE<\/strong><\/font><\/a>. Maybe someone else did. Or maybe he noticed it here on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>ArtsJournal<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, or via a link on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=45\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Romenesko<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, or maybe he noticed our Dec. 11 follow-up item <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2005\/12\/credit_where_du.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>CREDIT WHERE DUE, AND BONES TO PICK<\/strong><\/font><\/a>.<br \/>\nCalame said nothing, however, about what piqued our interest most: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1400041511\/qid=1135008997\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-6978789-4355133?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>the big Robert Fisk non-fave<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, which Publishers Weekly liked as much as we did. (&#8220;Unflinching, provocative, brilliantly written &#8212; a work of major importance for today\u2019s world,&#8221; PW said.) Fisk&#8217;s exclusion from the NYTBR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/04\/books\/review\/notable-books2005.html?ex=1135141200&#038;en=2dfba2d2a40e5262&#038;ei=5070\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>100 Notable Books of the Year<\/strong><\/font><\/a> for 2005 was not Calame&#8217;s concern because, as he wrote, &#8220;Of course, much of the judgment about the books falls into the realm of opinion &#8212; and beyond the public editor&#8217;s mandate.&#8221; We&#8217;re not crazy about the &#8220;of course.&#8221; But fair enough.<br \/>\n<i>&#8212; Tireless Staff of Thousands<\/i><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/25\/books\/review\/25mail.html\" class=inline  target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Several letters<\/strong><\/font><\/a> about the 100 Notable Books, Robert  Fisk&#8217;s &#8220;The Great War for Civilisation,&#8221; and Geoffrey Wheatcroft&#8217;s review of it, have since been published in the Book Review (in the issue of Dec. 25, 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Calame, the public editor of The New York Times, says his interest was piqued. His column on Sunday was headlined We didn&#8217;t send him our Dec. 3 item ArtsJournal, or via a link on CREDIT WHERE DUE, AND BONES TO PICK. Calame said nothing, however, about what piqued our interest most: 100 Notable Books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-lE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}