Chekhov's Mistress
Wilson, AWP, and the Guy Who Loved Me (for a split second)
Sounds like I may be the only person in the litblogosphere that Frank Wilson didn’t invite to write for the Inquirer – hmmm – but I will miss his blog, BooksInq., which is closing along with his long career at the newspaper. He and his blog were an absolute positive influence on our corner of the world. I’m betting that Mr. Wilson has a lot to say about books and maybe a bit about philosophy or fly fishing or something and will be hosting a lively blog under his own auspices sometime in the future.
Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic’s Daily Dish linked to my post on blogs and criticism on Sunday and in five years of blogging I’ve not seen a traffic spike like that, even from being one of the few people linked to from Miss Snark, but of course as soon as the post slipped off the page, the traffic came to a halt – do you see a pattern emerging? I’m like the towneys in Radiator Springs: “Wait, Come Back! We’ll be here!” Still it was nice to be agreed with by a popular kid, only I wish some of the comments here on the site would have come from an outside skeptic.
I went to the AWP writer’s conference last week. A friend told me I would enjoy it and she was right. It was as though all the people I seek out at BookExpo were concentrated in one room (well three) together. But, surprisingly, there were few bloggers. At least any that I knew. I was only there for a few hours on Thursday and I did get to say hello to the amazing Dan Wickett, but I would have thought it would be old home week for the blogging cabal. Maybe I should have gone to the parties. Alas! Flask is a butterless man.
Otherwise, AWP was fun. I’ve been to a lot of conventions and most of them are sickening to one degree or another, but there was a certain harmony of purpose at AWP and despite one table of dour interns (from a publisher we know) everyone was pretty enthusiastic about what they were doing. I heard the convention hall was packed on Saturday, though not enough I suppose for Apple to make an e-reader for them.
Expect the brief posts to continue for a while yet as I’m nearly back on my feet from being bowled over by a couple of peanuts.
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I can fully sympathize on the hit spike phenomena. Andrew Sullivan linked to my blog once, too, and Calloo Callay! Oh frabjous day! But then, once the music died down the crowd left, leaving me to clean up their overturned glasses, peanut shells and other detritus.
Humph.
– Bluestalking Reader (02/12 at 11:46 AM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: February 06, 2008
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