{"id":147,"date":"2007-03-07T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-12-09T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T20:45:51","slug":"i-dont-know-what-to-do-about-my-feelings-for-daphne-merkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Know What To Do About My Feelings For Daphne Merkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>, which is a complete snooze (ala Jim Jarmusch<\/a>). I twice sent her a letter seeking an interview and twice I received no reply.<\/a> I fawned over her in my interview with novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet<\/a>. On Jewcy.com, Daphne discusses blogs with John Derbyshire (who praised my interview with Heather MacDonald<\/a> but did not answer either of my emails seeking an interview). She writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here’s my question about Wolcott<\/strong>: why does any print journalist or writer need<\/em> a blog? Doesn’t Wolcott get enough space to air his sometimes interesting, sometimes merely snappish thoughts and mini-thoughts in Vanity Fair<\/em>? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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