Chekhov's Mistress
Read Widely, Think Well, and Write Often
I’m not sure what people think of my little sign-off at the bottom of my posts; the idea I stole, in homage of course, from the sonorous story teller of Lake Wobegon. But there it is, the motto of this site, and we are stuck with it. Corny as it is though, it reflects if nothing else what I look for when weeding through the burgeoning blogoshpere, those that clearly do all-of-the-above. Notoriety means little, but passion and an ability to communicate do. That is why I’m taking time out to mention two new litblogs that are well worth your time for regular visits:
Norma Lundberg’s Atalantasapples
and
Genevieve Tucker’s You Cried for Night*.
Their similarities are more striking than their differences. Both women are from outside of the U.S. where a majority of litbloggers are at least physically located. Norma lives in Canada, Genevieve in Australia. Both have a sense of their country’s literary community and look to be a voice in that context. In the many ways the liblog community is growing, with writers and academics, it is refreshing to see it expand internationally too.
Genevieve started blogging in part from her involvement in the Gaddis reading and managed to be pretty much the last person standing there. Norma came around to this site around the time we were putting together the 400 Windmills site and is now an avid commentator on our Cervantes outing.
Most importantly, both are well read, passionate and thoughtful and promise to share with us their writing as they wend their way through the books of the day. Both have interesting names (And aren’t the names in blogs one of the interesting aspect of this phenomenon), but I will leave it to you to visit them and find out their etymology.
- Note that Genevieve’s site, while new, is a reincarnation at TypePad of her first site, so if you’ve been there before, you will need to revisit the new link above.
Read widely, think well, and write often
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: April 13, 2005
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