Says Sven:
“For as exciting as the blogosphere is as a supplement, as a place of provocation and response, it is too fluid in its nature ever to focus our widely diverging cultural energies. A hopscotch through the referential enormity of argument and opinion cannot settle the ground under our feet.”
Read the rest of Birkert’s rumination [...]

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Scott McLemee of Crooked Timber has a “real” blog now: Quick Study. Right now I have little time for reading things that aren’t directly related to work, but Quick Study is going on the shortlist.

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“A novel is a two-way street, in which the labour required on either side is, in the end, equal. Reading, done properly, is every bit as tough as writing…”
Read more from Zadie Smith’s look at literature’s ‘legacy of failure’…

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