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As is with all high minded writers......... published writers that is........officially published in a book or newspaper writers that is.............. [MORE] |
cheyanne |
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Kirsch has his own blog set up within six months. He's right about some things, and wrong about a lot.... [MORE] |
Levari |
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As print & online media continue to merge & mutate, it becomes increasingly difficult to make value judgements grounded on... [MORE] |
Henry Gould |
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Re: ethics. There are none insofar as the publishing world goes. Reviews are de facto blurb factories. And people will read... [MORE] |
Dan Schneider |
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Over the last two years, I have read and enjoyed many blogs but all of them on and off, the... [MORE] |
Anirudh Karnick |
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What about the shills at Amazon booksellers? What category do they inhabit? There is number one reviewer, Harriet Klausner, whose... [MORE] |
Barbara Delaney |
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Al the squabbling between bloggers and journalists - or in this case critics - obscures the real issue, which is... [MORE] |
Ms Baroque |
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Perhaps I am just quibbling, but I find a number of reviews in the London Review of Books tedious, overly... [MORE] |
Anirudh Karnick |
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A spirited debate has been raging over the bookblog, a medium soundly denounced by many literary critics, who condemn bookblogs... [MORE] |
Bibliolatrist |
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Although I have to agree that the analysis, especially the part about the length and language of blogs, can be... [MORE] |
Marc André Bélanger |
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I do not know what blogs Mr. Kirsch has been reading, but if he were to look around a little... [MORE] |
Robert Archambeau |
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Kirsch states that bloggers are upset with criticism of their blogs, while the articles that have appeared recently have been... [MORE] |
harvey |
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It's interesting that many any of the commentators who complain that Mr. Kirsch generalizes also generalize by not providing links... [MORE] |
Bill |
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I really don't accept your thesis that blogging provides bite-sized reviewing; if anything blog reviews have lengthier reviews than what... [MORE] |
Robert Nagle |
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Unfortunately the newspaper book reviewers have to come to terms with the fact that print journallism is struggling to stay... [MORE] |
Gerry Young |
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I don't think we should confuse "reviews" with "literary criticism". Reviews run from the small town weekly up to the... [MORE] |
rpm |
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"Those who can, do, and those who can't, blog?" Cute as hell, but also stupid as hell. Plenty of "real"... [MORE] |
Kelley Dupuis |
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As a British reviewer, writer & blogger I enjoyed this article very much. I agree with a lot that you... |
PD Smith |
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Although I agree that there could be more book reviews available (especially as an LA Times reader disgusted by the... [MORE] |
Katya Johann |
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Yet another 'the internet is bad for books' rant (print = good, internet = bad) without evidence or an understanding... [MORE] |
Duncan |
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Among the many oversights in this piece, Mr.Kirsch, let me point out three: "Often isolated and inexperienced, usually longing to break... [MORE] |
Chandrahas Choudhury |
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Literally, a person can post whatever they want to on a blog. Someone who blogs in not infected with a... [MORE] |
Justin Dobbs |
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In fact, despite what the bloggers themselves believe, the future of literary culture does not lie with blogs — or... [MORE] |
Tammy Everts |
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Dear Mr. Kirsch, While I agree with many of the points that you make in your article on literary blogs, and... [MORE] |
Reginald Shepherd |
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"The blog form, that miscellany of observations, opinions, and links, is not well-suited to writing about literature..." Adam Kirsch's spurious rhetorical... [MORE] |
Steven Augustine |
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Don't get around much, do you, Kirsch? I won't trouble you with links to the many worthwhile blogs devoted to... [MORE] |
Mark J. McPherson |
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Oddly enough, I found the link to this article on a literary blog. While I agree that perhaps literary blogging... [MORE] |
Jessica |
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Dear CR Beha, So, using the "I know it when I see it" approach to what constitutes a blog and what... [MORE] |
Jonny Diamond |
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I've heard these arguments before. So, only print reviewers are capable of an intellectual discourse on literature? If bloggers are so... [MORE] |
Wendy |
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Iam leading publisher from India. My experience is very very bad , most leading newspaper of India stoped to review... [MORE] |
Ramesh Raghuvanshi |
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Good literary criticism is a highly complex form of civilized discourse, and is generally not to be found in blogs.... [MORE] |
Tom |
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As is oversimplification, particularly in the assumption that 'bloggers' and your rarefied 'professional writers' are in any way separate camps.... [MORE] |
Matt |
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If the "literary" bloggers represent a dead end, the fact that their blogs are filled with the stones of ridicule,... [MORE] |
Tim Barrus |
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Literary criticism is only worth having if it at least strives to be literary in its own right, with a... [MORE] |
Pamela |
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Bloggers are essentially tastemakers, not reviewers. Bloggers' book commentary can be capsulized as, "I like this, I don't like that,... [MORE] |
Richard S. Wheeler |
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Precisely because "literature is not news the way politics is news" (though I think a lot of people would consider... [MORE] |
Rohan Maitzen |
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Mr Kirsch is a thoughful, useful and reliable commentator on books but alas his media overview is less than that.... [MORE] |
Robert Birnbaum |
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As some of the very best reviews are available online or in print where is the dichotomy? [MORE] |
G. Roberts |
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Adam Kirsch mixes up two (or more) separate issues. Given that bloggers can in no way be blamed for the... [MORE] |
R Campbell |
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One obviously can say more in five thousand words than one can in fifty. However one can also create a work... [MORE] |
Shalom Freedman |
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Shalom Freedman is himself a case in point! I have read many of Shalom Freedman's reviews on Amazon.com over the... [MORE] |
Randy Deutsch |
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That this is a blog...right? Perhaps this appears in print somewhere, but I am reading it online, and can comment on... [MORE] |
John |
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Adam Kirsch denies that literature is like news. However: "Literature is news that stays news." Ezra Pound, "ABC of Reading" [1934] chapter... [MORE] |
Jonathan Vos Post |
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An article that is published online and made available for comments does not a blog make. The distinction isn't just... [MORE] |
CR Beha |
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However, Kirsch is casting aspersion on all blogs when, as you say, he is referring to a handful of them.... [MORE] |
John |
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It doesn't greatly matter anymore. Current-day Americans will not read good books in any case, and so it scarcely... [MORE] |
Abner Furd |
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