the print v. web wars
Can print book coverage and literary blogs ever find a way to get along? Book blogger
Maud Newton thinks so: "I find it kind of naïve and misguided to be a triumphalist blogger," she told
Times book reporter
Motoko Rich. "But I also find it kind of silly when people in the print media bash blogs as a general category, because I think the people are doing very, very different things." A good point, and one that's entirely lost on novelist Richard Ford.
Mr. Ford, who has never looked at a literary blog, said he wanted the judgment and filter that he believed a newspaper book editor could provide. "Newspapers, by having institutional backing, have a responsible relationship not only to their publisher but to their readership," Mr. Ford said, "in a way that some guy sitting in his basement in Terre Haute maybe doesn't."
At least Richard doesn't pretend that he knows what he's talking about! That
totally sets him apart from
Washington Post book columnist
Michael Dirda, who contributed a screed about his anti-blog feelings to his boss Marie Arana over on the National Book Critics Circle, uh,
Blogspot blog.
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