You’ll start seeing more book, CD and DVD reviews on TMV in the future. We’ve always run some but I will be doing more myself on a regular basis. Our reviews are of varying lengths. All of my reviews will be short reviews, usually three paragraphs max. The reason: I buy a LOT of books and find that I enjoy reading short punchy reviews. Other TMV writers may do longer ones. Also: reviews of books on politics will NOT necessarily reflect my own views. We will be reviewing books of many different viewpoints.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.