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LA Times Poll

Californians buy more books from Abebooks.com than any other US state. Next week, the LA Times is expected to appoint a new book review editor to what has been described as one of the book world’s most influential positions.

As bookselling experts, who do you think is America’s best newspaper book reviewer?

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David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle
Marie Arana, Washington Post
Sam Tanenhaus, NY Times
James Concannon, Boston Globe
Carol Memmott, USA Today
Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune
Margarita Fichtner, Miami Herald
None of the above because newspaper book reviews do not matter

If you could appoint anyone in the US as the LA Times book review editor, who would it be?