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Out here in litblog land we probably do it all the time, because in that one-book-leads-to-another stream of reading consciousness way we all have, companion reading is often the order of the day here.

51 entries from August 2007 2007

Out here in litblog land we probably do it all the time, because in that one-book-leads-to-another stream of reading consciousness way we all have, companion reading is often the order of the day here.

Vintage Twins 2007

Out here in litblog land we probably do it all the time, because in that one-book-leads-to-another stream of reading consciousness way we all have, companion reading is often the order of the day here.

Vintage Twins 2007

I have made a basic distinction between what I would still call a "litblog" and the kind of more critically expansive blog I now think of as a "critblog."

Statement of Purpose 2008

I especially expect an increase in blogs offering longer-form commentary and criticism, as opposed to the link-centered blog that defined the literary weblog in its first years of existence but that by now has become just one kind of litblog among others.

Statement of Purpose 2008

I don't know if I would go so far as to speculate that these newspaper and magazine-centered blogs are deliberately working to undermine the potential authority of literary blogs by creating examples demonstrating their vapidity, but the concept of the "litblog" they embody surely does trivialize what literary blogs have accomplished and might still accomplish.

Statement of Purpose 2008

Decided I'd better take my feet off the table, sit up straight and take my new designation as a "litblog" seriously.

Archive 2005-07-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

Decided I'd better take my feet off the table, sit up straight and take my new designation as a "litblog" seriously.

So Am I A Litblog? Sharon Bakar 2005

This is, of course, the same old charge that's been leveled against blogs since they first began to threaten the hegemony of print, and where litblogs are concerned, it becomes less true with every passing day and with every new litblog that comes to my attention.

Book Reviewing 2010

Just recently Sandra at Bookworld (otherwise a nice, thoughful litblog) opined that she had contracted "Bloom Syndrome," a "condition in which the sufferer is unable to read any work of literature unless it is deemed Significant by Harold Bloom and which often results in the reader losing the will to live/read, crushed under the weight of canonical imperatives."

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010