If more blog writing--good, bad and other--contributes to the further democratization of America, I am for that. I am not, though, for a debasement or deflation of literary values and aesthetic understanding. That would be a mistake--one that pits popularization as the most accurate synonym of democratizing, one where populism is the only valid expression … Continue reading Blogging for Democracy?

To blog or not to blog--here I go again; repetition becomes motif--that, in itself, another motif: the motif of motif. I have been blogging for how long now? Need I actually count? I started blogging with the October Revue, the sister view of this one. I still publish the O. R., I have even called … Continue reading Web Log