The word begrudge has appeared 62 times on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 4 in the essay “Too Busy Blurbing Books to Write One” by Rebecca Makkai. She is a novelist who writes about giving up “the laborious process wherein writers beg one another for nice words for the covers of their new books, and, in return, read and provide blurbs for other new books”:
I will never begrudge the asker, in part because blurbs matter — and not just to readers. Reviewers who receive early copies notice blurbs, as do those booking guests for radio shows and booksellers deciding orders. I’ve judged prizes for which each juror needed to consider 150 books, and, yes, compelling blurbs will push a book to the top of the stack.
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