Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web -Sarah Boxer Novel Book
Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web
Author: Sarah BoxerPublisher: Random House USA IncCategory: Journalistic Style Guides, Literary Essays, Internet Guides & Online Services, Graphical & Digital Media Applications, Children's General Story BooksAge Group: 12-17Book Format: PaperbackWhat are you working on?”
An anthology of blogs.”
I didn't know you had a blog.”
I don't. It's an anthology of other people's blogs.”
How do you find good blogs?”
I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”
Is a good blog hard to find?”
Yes. Very.”
A Book of Blogs? WTF!!
Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs — and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are:
two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable fugliness” of celebrities
a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006
a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex
an illustrator's tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap
Odysseus's sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey
Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web.
Sarah Boxer, formerly a critic and reporter at The New York Times, is the author and illustrator of the cartoon novel In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
Table Of Contents
INTRODUCTION AngryBlackBitch, Pamela Merritt Becker-Posner Blog, Gary S. Becker and Richard Posner Click Opera, Nick Currie Cosmic Variance, Sean Carroll El Guapo in DC, author known as El Guapo Eurotrash, Delly Hayward Get Your War On, David Rees Go Fug Yourself, Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks How to Learn Swedish in 1000 Difficult Lessons, author known as Francis Strand I Blame The Patriarchy, Jill Posey-Smith In The Middle, Raed Jarrar Ironic Sans, David Friedman Its raining noodles!, Angelique Chan Johnny i hardly knew you, Jennie Portnof Julia {Here Be Hippogriffs}, Julia Litton Language Log, Benjamin Zimmer Matthew Yglesias, Matthew Yglesias Micrographica, Renée French Midnight in Iraq, Jeffrey Barnett Nina Paley.com, Nina Paley Old Hag, Lizzie Skurnick Radio.Uruguay, Dmitri Goutnik Rootless Cosmopolitan, Tony Karon The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross The Smoking Gun, William Bastone Under Odysseus, Mark Katakowski HOW TO FIND BLOGS ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAbout Sarah Boxer
Sarah Boxer, formerly a critic and reporter at The New York Times, is the author and illustrator of the cartoon novel "In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.(BK-9780307278067)
| SKU | BK-9780307278067 |
| Barcode # | 9780307278067 |
| Brand | Random House USA Inc |
| Artist / Author | Sarah Boxer |
| Shipping Weight | 0.4000kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.160m |
| Shipping Height | 0.020m |
| Shipping Length | 0.210m |
| Assembled Length | 20.600m |
| Assembled Height | 2.000m |
| Assembled Width | 15.600m |
| Type | Paperback |
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