The "blurb" -- defined in Webster's New International Dictionary (Second Edition 1958) as "[a] brief, often extravagant, commendatory notice of a book" -- is a coin of the realm in literary criticism. On the dust cover that doesn't overdo it, and doesn't under do it, the blurb gets it better and closer to right than any other form.* The blurb may be exceedingly concise, epigrammatic in style and length. Or it may run 50 words, but seldom more than 150 words. Here's the place to blurb The Eddie Roth Reader. Please consider adding your good thoughts, assessment, and advice below.

(Faint praise also welcome.)

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* Favorite all time blurb, by Mel Brooks regarding a  Carl Reiner memoir: "Surprisingly funny!"