Books bloggers are harming literature, warns Booker prize head judge

The chair of this year's Man Booker prize judges has warned that blogging is drowning out serious criticism, to the detriment of literature.

Although Peter Stothard, who is editor of the Times Literary Supplement, is a blogger himself– and praises literary websites such as the Complete Review– he expressed fears that the burgeoning amount of online opinion about books could be damaging to the future of writing.