Author recommends boring case of books (7)
I believe the answer is:
burgess
'author' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'recommends boring case of books' is the wordplay.
'recommends' becomes 'urges' ('urge' can be a synonym of 'recommend').
'boring' indicates putting letters inside (to bore something can mean to drill into it).
'case of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (like emptying a case).
'books' with its middle removed is 'bs'.
'urges' put inside 'bs' is 'BURGESS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for burgess that I've seen before include "Anthony --, author" , "Citizen of a borough" , "Old representative" , "was once a bigwig in the borough" , "Guy who spied" .)