In the Age of Spite: The Proliferation of ‘Dumb Rage’ in Internet Literature
January 4th, 2012 § 5 Comments
Ralph Waldo Emerson's comments on Jane Austen's work in the style of image macros, popularized by internet communities like Internet Poetry. Source image courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin via Wikimedia Commons.
There has never been a historical period/art movement without its shit talkers.
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When All Your Friends Are Writers
October 9th, 2011 § 4 Comments
I read a post on Trick With a Knife (it has since been removed by the author) awhile back that, among other things, made a disparaging comment about another writer’s remark about the number of writers she considers to be friends. The comment was something to the affect of, “I feel sorry for you because all your friends are writers,” as if it was a bad thing. This was the primary thing that stuck with me from the piece.
Mostly, it stuck with me because all* of my friends are writers and this has never seemed like a bad thing. « Read the rest of this entry »
