Mischa Berlinski (born 1973 in New York, United States)[citation needed] is an American author.
While King lauds the novel's complexity, "narrative voice full of humor and sadness," and suspense, he criticizes the book's publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, for poor marketing choices:[6] Why, why, why would a company publish a book this good and then practically demand that people not read it?
Is it because there are people in publishing who believe that readers who liked The Memory Keeper's Daughter are too dumb to enjoy a killer novel like Fieldwork?
[7] When Berlinski won the Whiting Award, he attributed it to his "luck" that "Stephen King, the most famous writer in the world, picked up my book because he didn't like the cover.
"[8] In 2007, The New York Review of Books published a positive review of Fieldwork from Hilary Mantel:[9] Early in Mischa Berlinski's gripping and entertaining first novel there is a piece of postmodern skittishness which points to a truth that novelists shy away from: their trade embarrasses them.