Quote of the Day | 0130
More than shame, though, the internet’s greatest strength is enthusiasm. The tussle, the argument, the fun of criticism has moved online. While mainstream critics have narrowed their focus to a handful of novels, movies, and television programmes, the field has never been wider. The same few dozen books might be reviewed in every print publication but meanwhile hundreds of thousands are published every year. In literary criticism there are huge gaps in what gets written about in print: books by women, translated fiction, comic books, books released by small presses, science fiction… Online, though, every niche has its community […]
Jessa Crispin, editor-in-chief of Bookslut, in:‘Is the age of the critic over?’
[x]#8220 fan zondag 30 januari 2011 @ 12:53:14
