Style Magazine in Richmond has combined book reviews of “Notes from the Sausage Factory” by Barnie Day and Becky Dale and “Adventures in Warnerland” by Steven Sisson — lumping together two works emanating from the blogosphere. The review is short — not exactly New York Times Book Review length — but at least it’s something. To my knowledge, none of the major state newspapers has deemed either book worthy of notice.
There’s one great quote in the review that reminds me how acutely I miss Barnie’s provocations:
“If you can imagine the universe of political commentary in Virginia as the Plains of Serengeti, the columnists, the op-ed folks … are the lions who move the political herds,” Day said in an e-mail. “They pay attention to the yipping, squalling fray jackals sometimes engage in, but they don’t fear them.”
