Letters and responses.(Letter to the editor) From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Literary Review of Canada, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

To the editor:

At first glance, Nick Mount's review of Dr. Delicious: Memoirs of a Life in CanLit ("Memoirs of a Publishing Pimp," September 2006) seems mainly devoted to laying out the book's contents and summarizing my career; it offers very little in the way of analysis. But if one looks a little closer, "the problem" emerges. Mount is upset by the fact that as a publisher I was also a businessman concerned with "the getting and spending of money." Implicit in his critique is the idea that academics should not sully themselves through involvement in business pursuits. He's ...

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