If you can’t wait for me to dig up the Guardian list, where Mark Sarvas was damned with faint praise ( bastards!), here it is.
On revisiting this list I realise I haven’t looked at a lot of these other than Bookslut and TEV – the rest may well be English. Je ne sais pas. The time may well have come for a blog that reviews litblogs. Why leave it to the newspapers?
March 09, 2005
what book blogs can do?
Have a look at this discussion on Dan Green’s excellent blog, The Reading Experience. The number of extant articles on litblogging in the US and UK is growing slowly, I’ll file a post soon which references to a few (and maybe stick some permanently in the sidebar).
The article mentioned by Green is by J.Peder Zane: coming from a North Carolina publication, News Observer, puts it pretty much in the lightweight category, but nonetheless it triggered responses from some of my favourite people ( now more accessible since I subscribed to Bloglines). The discussion is worth a look, and demonstrates clearly to me that the charm of this kind of ‘smart cocktail party’, as Zane rather crankily puts it, is the speed with which a throwaway phrase can telescope out into a more thorough digestion of a question via the humble hyperlink.
Thinking out loud? rather than learned conversation? Perhaps, but it beats free to air TV hands down. (You may care to check out Dan's posts on Robert McCrum and Richard Curtis while you're there.)
The article mentioned by Green is by J.Peder Zane: coming from a North Carolina publication, News Observer, puts it pretty much in the lightweight category, but nonetheless it triggered responses from some of my favourite people ( now more accessible since I subscribed to Bloglines). The discussion is worth a look, and demonstrates clearly to me that the charm of this kind of ‘smart cocktail party’, as Zane rather crankily puts it, is the speed with which a throwaway phrase can telescope out into a more thorough digestion of a question via the humble hyperlink.
Thinking out loud? rather than learned conversation? Perhaps, but it beats free to air TV hands down. (You may care to check out Dan's posts on Robert McCrum and Richard Curtis while you're there.)
March 08, 2005
oz poetry news
A review of the most recent collection of Andrew Sant's poetry, Tremors, is posted over at Verse. (Thanks to Ivy at North of the latte line for the link.)
March 03, 2005
what can writers do for blogging
Mark Sarvas ( he of TEV fame) has taken the plunge and networked with the L.A. chapter of PEN to float the idea of a litblogging workshop for authors. I am a tad surprised as I thought the American scene was full of blogging writers - but it appears this is 'an idea whose time has come'.
Check out also the article he links to regarding an agent's fearful view of litblogging - quite alarmist, worthy of the most timid of '80s librarians. (No more books! No more publishers! he even says, no more gatekeepers...!!)
On our patch, Express Media, in conjunction with the Victorian Writers' Centre, are having an Emerging Writers' Festival in May which I intend to check out with a view to finding out more about where young writers see blogging going in this country. It is reasonable at this point to assume they will have a stronger interest than older writers - or is it? Perhaps there'll be blogging workshops at every main writing festival in 2006...The wave approaches, when and where will it break, I wonder?
Check out also the article he links to regarding an agent's fearful view of litblogging - quite alarmist, worthy of the most timid of '80s librarians. (No more books! No more publishers! he even says, no more gatekeepers...!!)
On our patch, Express Media, in conjunction with the Victorian Writers' Centre, are having an Emerging Writers' Festival in May which I intend to check out with a view to finding out more about where young writers see blogging going in this country. It is reasonable at this point to assume they will have a stronger interest than older writers - or is it? Perhaps there'll be blogging workshops at every main writing festival in 2006...The wave approaches, when and where will it break, I wonder?
March 02, 2005
read all about it
These people are still running their Tournament Of Books : the final round sees The Plot Against America shaping up against Cloud Atlas, with a stellar list of litbloggers commenting on the stoush. Also there's an interview with Robert McCrum, literary editor at The Guardian and the author of a new bio on P.G. Wodehouse. The interviewer, Robert Birnbaum, works out of Boston and has also interviewed Louis de Bernieres, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Lethem and Peter Carey, among many others. The interviews archive is worth a look, as is the whole site.
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