For how long can I love a woman who ignores me and scorns my medium? I loved Daphne’s essays so much that I read her novel Enchantment, which is a complete snooze (ala Jim Jarmusch). I twice sent her a letter seeking an interview and twice I received no reply. I fawned over her in my interview with novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet. On Jewcy.com, Daphne discusses blogs with John Derbyshire (who praised my interview with Heather MacDonald but did not answer either of my emails seeking an interview). She writes:
Here’s my question about Wolcott: why does any print journalist or writer need a blog? Doesn’t Wolcott get enough space to air his sometimes interesting, sometimes merely snappish thoughts and mini-thoughts in Vanity Fair?
Daphne has obviously never blogged and doesn’t know the first thing about blogging. How can she be so neanderthal as to think that blogs are only for expressing opinions? A blog is just a form of communication technology. It’s like a cell phone or a computer or a fax. There are many advantages for working writers having a blog, including: * Lots of matters are not substantial enough for an essay. * Lots of matters are not suited for your publication. * Blogging is often spontaneous, and does not take the effort that writing for a regular newspaper or magazines requires. You can begin to work out something in a few paragraphs on a blog and then transform it later into a polished piece. * Blogging is usually a quicker way to communicate than preparing an article for a paper or magazine. In a fast moving story, you can get something up and out on a blog more easily and quickly than for a regular newspaper or magazine. * Blogging gives you the freedom to experiment. * Blogging allows you to ask your readers for help. In short, a blog is as useful to a writer as a cell phone or fax.
