Posts on “Litbloggers & Blog Floggers”

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    • by Bud Parr on 11/08/05 (0 comments)

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“I don’t dismiss fiction because of Tom Clancy anymore than I dismiss online criticism because of Amazon customer reviews.”

- Stephen Mitchelmore in response to James Wolcott

“Smarts, not platform, is what matters.” – Wired Magazine on Dzanc Books (congrats, Dan)

(via ed)

“This Jeremy Denk is a voice that, effectively, could never have been heard before the advent of the Internet: sophisticated on the one hand, informal on the other, immediate in impact. Blogs such as this put a human face on an alien culture.”

- Alex Ross on classical music on the Web

Common Species of the Literary World (via Ed)

“if you, in the literary criticism and analysis world, make fun of people who should naturally be your primary audience…you are a huge recursive tool. I’m sorry, but it’s true: you are a monkey wrench you have thrown into your own self.” – Darby M. Dixon III

The Point, Really: “Rather than spending my time telling other people to shut up, or trying to impose a reign of virtue, I’d prefer to try to step up my own game.”

From Frank Wilson I see that Finn Harvor has a new blog, Conversations in the Book Trade and it looks interesting.



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