Thursday, October 30, 2008

Why I Blog

Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan on "Why I Blog"
From the preface to Andrew Sullivan's "Why I Blog" in The Atlantic (November 2008):
For centuries, writers have experimented with forms that evoke the imperfection of thought, the inconstancy of human affairs, and the chastening passage of time. But as blogging evolves as a literary form, it is generating a new and quintessentially postmodern idiom that’s enabling writers to express themselves in ways that have never been seen or understood before. Its truths are provisional, and its ethos collective and messy. Yet the interaction it enables between writer and reader is unprecedented, visceral, and sometimes brutal. And make no mistake: it heralds a golden era for journalism.
Read the full piece here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog

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