Blogs v. lists, chez Shanna Compton: “here we may edit, revise, repost, while there once you hit send you’re screwed.” And even more interesting: And I would just never email a poem I wrote to a bunch of strangers. I don’t particularly like it when I get them, especially when the sender asks two days later: Why didn’t anyone comment?…
Chris Murray responds to my post on “the Asian American Updike” with a denunciation of “Updike-Hegemony”: The only salvagable thing in his cultural wrecks might be some talent for thick description, but even that is so overburdened with nostalgic hearkenings and heaps of WASPishness, that it isn’t worth shoveling through…Ayyyye, mi, poor Lee!
A lovely illusion: Returning to blogging actually means that I am doing more work, since it means that I’m spending more time sitting in front of my computer.
One last salvo: Chris Murray points to Tom Beckett on why he prefers blogs to listservs. And some of Chris’s students have found Wil Wheaton’s blog, looking at which gives me a weird kind of high-school geek nostalgic frisson.
John Latta tours Chicago, seeing Rembrandt and buying books in my own backyard.
So I pick up this week’s New York Times Magazine and see, above Bill Murray’s head, a startling headline: “An Asian-American Updike.” Here I thought that Asian American writing was a young, vital literature, full of growth and innovation; and now it’s gone and produced, of all things, an Updike. Sheesh. Then I thought: Who on earth could this “Updike”…
Right on. Catherine says: the Buffalo List reads like 30 people all talking at once in a voice of utter entitlement & self-assurance about things I can rarely relate to ’cause I haven’t slept in 2 days because I’m trying to figure out how to pay my rent that is already a week over due and the blogs I love…
MYOPIC POETRY SERIES — a weekly series of readings and poets’ talks Myopic Books in Chicago — Sundays at 7:00 / 1564 N. Milwaukee Avenue MARCH EVENTS Sunday March 7 – Gabriel Gudding and John Beer Gabriel Gudding’s first book, A Defense of Poetry was published by the University of Pittsburgh press as part of their Pitt Poetry Series in…
Trolling through ye olde archives, I came across another study in blog ecology that looks a lot like the back-and-forth between list and blog that we’ve been talking about this week.
More on blogs & lists: the blogosphere strikes back, sort of. Stephanie and Jonathan both remark on the way Poetics list discussions get filtered to them largely through blogs (well, through this one in particular). Jonathan goes so far as to say: “I officially call for [the list’s] abolition!” Ptarmigan minces no words: the list is a display of “ziploc-sealed…