In a recent series of interviews organized by Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence
and David Myers of A Commonplace Blog fourteen literary bloggers were asked a series of questions about blogging. While you might want to put different questions to the bloggers, here are the nine that Kurp and Myers posed:
1. What are the non-electronic precursors of book blogging?
2. Who do you look toward for inspiration and models?
3. How does book blogging differ from print counterparts such as book reviews?
4. How do you respond to this statement?: Blogging is just another hobby, like stamp collecting or hockey.
5. How has the experience of blogging changed the way you write?
6. What about the sometimes vicious nature of the beast?--the ad hominem attacks, and the widespread tendency to confuse harsh disagreement with such ad hominem attacks.
7. Some say the golden age of blogging has already passed, that blogging has failed to fulfill its early promise; and the evidence which is given is that no one becomes famous from blogging any longer. Do you agree?
8. In a recent blog column, the technology writer Michael S. Malone suggests that a handful of bloggers have "earned huge audiences, while millions of others have not," because readers have learned to trust the more popular bloggers "to either consistently entertain us, or we trust their judgment in selecting interesting items for us to read, or we trust that their world view is just like our own and their ability to enunciate those views even better." Do you agree? Does this explain why no book blogger has earned a huge audience?
9. Are book bloggers wise or foolish to include political commentary?
The links to the first seven responses follow:
Elberry’s Ghost
American Fiction Notes
Laudator Temporis Acti
Turmsegler
Books, Inq.—The Epilogue
The Little Professor
About Last Night
