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Over on The Elegant Variation, Mark has apparently begun publishing sequential emails he received over the course of the last two years from n + 1. I imagine this is in response to their recent piece on blogs.
I’d just like to say that I don’t condone this. Emails, like other letters, are written in confidence with the expectation that they won’t be plastered wherever. I’d certainly hate for many of my emails to end up on the Internet. I can’t say I’m terribly fond of the editorial stance n + 1 has taken to blogs recently, and what evidence I’ve seen convinces me that they’ve somehow become biased against us, but I think this goes too far. Frankly, I think they’re completely wrong about litblogs, and I like to think the best of us regularly prove them wrong. But not like that.
The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)
The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
I completely agree. We write hundreds of e-mails per day and it is one thing to speak about the contents of an e-mail to another friend but quite different to post it on the internet. I would certainly be horrified if some of my e-mails ended up on a public site!
I agree as well. It’s uncouth and unprofessional, among other things.
Completely agree. Not sure why he’s so blissed-out about these e-mails or why he’s using his site to let everybody know he’s so blissed-out about them. Really inexplicable.
It’s been hard to miss all the bickering going on with this issue, and while I read TEV on a regular basis, Mr. Sarvas isn’t doing bloggers any favors by posting personal correspondence. Sure, it’s his blog, he can post whatever he wants, but in my opinion, what he did was a low blow. He’s only giving critics yet another reason to dismiss bloggers. If bloggers want to be taken seriously, they shouldn’t stoop to this level of childishness. I’m sorry, but the bloggers taking part in this are the ones losing. And the funniest part? They’re digging not only their own graves, but everyone else’s, as well.
But all this has been amusing–the more serious bloggers are often critics, yet as this whole “discussion” proves, they cry foul when anyone has the temerity to criticize them. Blogging isn’t the height of media and criticism; quite the opposite, as Mr. Sarvas and others have so elegantly shown.
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