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Letter from a Reader 8.17.26

Don't blame critics and journalists for giving Jason Arday's book bad reviews. Blame the publisher who bought it and made it available to all of them

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Jan Harayda
Aug 17, 2026
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Jason Arday with his Simon & Schuster editor Dawn Davis / Dawn Davis Instagram

Read the early reviews of Jason Arday’s book in Kirkus Reviews and Publishers Weekly and you might think, “Boy, those suckers at Kirkus and PW were duped.” I’ve reviewed a lot for Kirkus, and I don’t see it that way.

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