[rland]

That is a fantastic idea.

I always thought it would be interesting to have a compendium of "artists' artists." Like, ask some of the most talented people in a given genre to give their recommendations.

Sometimes you get this with longer-form interviews of artists, but those often have a lot of details to sift through.

For books, literary magazines are good: the good ones publish good authors, who recommend good authors. But they're clique-y and only sort of fill the role.