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"Whatever the label, I was unhappy and feeling empty. The amount of time I spent on Facebook had pushed me into an existential crisis. It wasn’t the time-wasting, per se, that bothered me. It was the nature of the obsession – namely self-obsession. Enough was enough. I left Facebook." Wow. It had not occurred to me that it was possible to take Facebook this seriously.
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"Literary magazines and I have not had good relations. … Why then did I leap to attention when Mr. Powazek asked for my thoughts on The Virginia Quarterly Review? I had read and loved their blog.
You heard me right. VQR has a blog which is updated with vigor by editor-in-chief Ted Genoways and his staff. While most journals warm to technology about as eagerly as Quakers warm to firearms (emperor of the genre The Paris Review didn’t feel it necessary to have a website until 2000), VQR seems to think there’s more than one way to interact with their publication. And more than one kind of reader in mind when a new issue goes to print." The praise starts there and just gets better: "This could be love."
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"The CLAW book is finally here! Not yet in person, but online, which in my view is better than any medium that passes bacteria from one hand to another." Check it out, CLAW fans — you can page through the book online. Awesome photos.
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Food magazine fight! "And you thought the local food movement was a quaint, idealistic grassroots affair…."
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