Chekhov's Mistress
Books Politics and Litblogs
Pardon me if I’m distracted from the main story here, but I enjoyed the prominence of litblogs, particularly MobyLives, in this Guardian piece on the International Man Booker prize winner Ismail Kadaré.
After the love-in came the backlash. In July, in a furious article on the litblog site www.mobylives.com, Irina Renata Dumitrascu denounced Kadare as “no Solzhenitsyn”. Kadare had, it was alleged, remained remarkably uncrushed by the communist heel.
Later, the article’s author, John Sutherland mentions the continuing discussion at three other litblogs:
The topic bubbles away, kept on the boil by a sustained barrage from the litblog community – sites such as readysteadybook.com, 3ammagazine.com and britlitblogs.com (check it out).
For a pretty short article (under 400 words), that’s a fair amount of space devoted to the blog discussion and the author even encourages his readers to read on. Impressive.
Read widely, think well, and write often
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: August 04, 2005
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