Amy Hertz, editor at large at Dutton/Penguin, will be the editor of the Huffington Post book section. The section will have reviews and essays from the New York Review of Books and reviews written by readers. Also to coincide, Ariana Huffington will start a book club on her site and her first pick will be announced on October 5th.
Ms. Huffington told The New York Observer:
“The Huffington Post is about having the the best of the old and the best of the new,” Ms. Huffington said. “We have the traditional way of covering books with the best of the reviews from the New York Review of Books and then the readers can interact,” by posting their own reviews, she added.
As anyone who has worked with her can attest, Amy Hertz is a hack who clearly failed upward. I’m sorry for Ariana Huffington who had the wool pulled over her eyes in terms of hiring Ms. Hertz, because she is dangerously incompetent, and highly threatened by talent because she knows it. It’s unfortunate, because it’s hacks like Amy Hertz who have made book publishing such a dramatic and cataclysmic failure.