A litblog (alternate: lit-blog or literature blog ) is a blog that focuses primarily on literary topics. There is a litblog community in the blogosphere whose authors cover a wide range of literary topics. Litbloggers can write about fiction, nonfiction, poetry, the publishing industry, literary journals, literary criticism, and more. They may focus on special literary genres, including science fiction and mystery. Some litbloggers prefer objective or formal tones, while others speak more.
Many litblogs feature book reviews that may or may not be featured in the mainstream press. Some litblogs display criticisms of reviews in the mainstream press. Interviews with authors are another common feature. Litblog can also be used as a virtual reading group for focused discussions on specific parts or pieces of literature, with some litblogs following certain literary pieces through the entire reading, and others reprinting diaries or letters from authors. Some litblogs are resources for information about the publishing industry, publicity, or writing craft.
Many litblogs have one author, but collaborative blogs have many authors, one of which can serve as the lead author who oversees contributors. There are also collaborative blogs that focus on significant international or national literary awards such as Read Nobel and Booker Complete where contributors share reviews about winning and selected titles, information about award-winning authors or award histories. These are sometimes associated with so-called 'reading challenges' but they can be useful repository comments about award winners and their books over time, especially in the case of lesser-known authors. Other collaborative blogs include those focusing on the work of a famous writer like La Comedie Humaine where members share their summaries and reviews as well as information about the French writer, Honorà © de Balzac.
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Example
Bookslut, Laila Lalami, The Literary Saloon, and Maud Newton are some of the oldest most active literature blogs. Moby Lives, one of the oldest literary blogs, recently died, but has returned on the Melville House Publishing website. Litkicks, run by Levi Asher is the oldest known literary blog of its kind and also remains active.
See also: Giant HTML, Miserable Book Reader, Nobody Did That, and The Rumpus. The books left by the review books and authors are not much discussed on the web anymore but are the bestsellers of their day. [1] The blog owner, Doug Bassett, interested in bestsellers in the past, "in part because there seems to be a scarcity of real information to this author, partly because I am interested in what book became popular, what this author shared (or don not sharing). "
Bilingual literary bloggers include Book Around the Corner (French, written in English), Iris on Books (Netherlands, in English), Beauty is Cats Sleep (Swiss, in English), Caravana de Recuerdos (bilingual Spanish/English). Some litblogs are profitable businesses while others are not running for profit. Some litblog writers are professional writers, academics, literary enthusiasts or industry professionals. Others are just people who love to write about books. In democratic blog forums, these groups can interact with reading and commenting on each other's posts.
The more newspapers and magazines also create litblogs. Dwight Garner of New York Times Book Review writes a litblog called Paper Cuts that is hosted by a newspaper. The Guardian allows authors to combine current book and publishing gossip in a feature called Free Comments. Litblog can also serve as an addition to a journal or literary organization, such as from Magazine 3: AM, Inside Higher Ed, Spike Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review , and Poetry Foundation. The National Book Critics Circle has its own litblog called Critical Mass which posts highly critical comments on non-professional litbloggers.
LitBloggers has also entered the Literary Prize scene by organizing the so-called Shadow Literature Prize, which has no monetary value but offers valuable international publicity to the long and short books, and provides a review archive of titles, since all the long list of titles are reviewed by at least one Jury Stained member, and all selected titles will be reviewed by all members. The Shadow Giller Prize, founded in 1995, is the first of these Shadow Literary Gifts. Its origins are Shadow Giller Shadows of early literary criticism and people in the publishing industry in 1995, but the concept migrated to the web in 2009. Organized by Kevin From Canada, [2] who held 'jurors' every year, the Shadow Giller Prize Jury with the consensus of his own Shadow Prize award for jury books preferred [3]. In 2011, The Shadow Man's Asian Literary Prize began [4]: ​​â € <â €
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Professional
Professional critics have litblogs in House of Mirth, About Last Night, Inside Higher Ed, The Dizzies, and more. In addition, the pioneers of The Elegant Variation, Laila Lalami, The Old Hag, Maud Newton, Return of the Reluctant, Bookslut, Ready Steady Book, The Reading Experience, and Sarah Weinman are some bloggers who write reviews and book criticisms for newspapers main and magazines. The National Book Critics Circle has its own litblog called Critical Mass which posts highly critical comments on non-professional litbloggers. Litblogger Scott Esposito also founded The Quarterly Conversation, a quarterly online publication featuring long literary essays.
Some litbloggers, including Laila Lalami and Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation, are also writers of fiction literature. Many published authors have also started blogs. Some of these bloggers are Neil Gaiman, Alison Bechdel, and Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing's famous blog. Young adult fiction writers are getting more blogging as well. Some of these bloggers are Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Justine Larbalestier, and Scott Westerfeld.
The litblog group continues to diversify. A group of academics run a litblog called The Valve. Co-op Litblog (disbanded) is a group of 20 light-minded people who choose to collectively recommend a book every three months. In the UK, six leading litblogs join forces to create Britlitblogs.com. There are blogs dedicated to one book, such as William T. Vollmann's
Making Light, John Scalzi, and Miss Snark (the latter now dead) are written by industry professionals who have insight for writers. Whipping Quill is a litblog about handicrafts. Book Tour is a creation litblog founder of Virtual Book Tour, Kevin Smokler, and Chris Anderson (author of The Long Tail.) Buzz, Balls & Hype is devoted to creating a buzz for writers.
Edward Champion of Reluctant Habits has a podcast series of authors called The Bat Segundo Show.
Kidlitosphere
Recently, children's literature bloggers have been organized together and brought an entity known as the Kidlitosphere. These bloggers include professional reviewers, booksellers, librarians, parents, homeschoolers, writers, illustrators, and anyone interested in this field. Some blogs are professional for print editions of online journals, such as A Fuse # 8 Production in School Library Journals and ShelfTalker in Weekly Publishers. Others do a series of interviews and regular reviews, including Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Big A little a, and doomsday shelves.
Kidlitosphere has its own literary award given annually called The Cybils Award. They also meet once a year in October for the annual conference.
External links
- Encyclopedia of Love is a bilingual Literary platform
- Overview litblog by Full Review with broad link
- Publishers Must Learn to Whisper in Guardian Web Articles on Litblog and Marketing
- The emergence of Guardian literary blog articles about the appearance of Litblog
- Smart Books: Could cyberspace be the best friend of this novel? Litblogs take off - and grow big. Village Voice Article on Litblogs and its effect on publishing
- Litblog Gives New Alternatives to Readers Articles on litblog with links
- Litblogs.net The weblog network of literature (in German)
- Follow the Silliman Blogroll Guide to subscribe to many popular litblogs, with links
- Litblogs.org Directory of literary blogs by country
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