Saturday, April 09, 2005
Read This! United by Love
4:58 AM
"Marking a departure from the solitary life of reading and writing, about 20 independent literary bloggers announced Friday that they will begin working together in hopes of drawing readers to books they feel deserve more attention, while seeking to generate more and deeper public discussions of literature....Mark Sarvas, who drew the project together, described the effort as less an awared program than a conversation starter.
"We want to shine a light on literary fiction likely to get overlooked and lost in the shuffle...The mission is to see what happens when 10 to 20 lit bloggers get behind a title and push hard. Does it make a difference?"
--L.A. Times article [April 9, 2005] on the Litblog Cooperative
"We want to shine a light on literary fiction likely to get overlooked and lost in the shuffle...The mission is to see what happens when 10 to 20 lit bloggers get behind a title and push hard. Does it make a difference?"
--L.A. Times article [April 9, 2005] on the Litblog Cooperative
6 comments:
This, as many have already said, is a great idea. It will be interesting to see the results. I would think sales of the featured novel will jump. Let's hope so.
Bob Liter
Let's all join hands and sing Kumbaya...
Yay!
So, people actually read literary fiction?
literary what? ;) I kaint read the big werds.
It sounds like a great idea. I'd check that place out ALL the time. Finding stuff to read that doesn't suck isn't always easy. Being lead to less-noticed material by people capable of making good suggestions will be awesome.
McLemee has a good colum today about the Litblog Co-op: here.
I applaud the effort, but back in the day, wasn't this what we used to call a "magazine," or even (forgive me) a webzine?
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