http://www.carolynyates.com/books/taking-lit-seriously/ Writer | Copy editor | Serial comma supporter Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.carolynyates.com/books/taking-lit-seriously/#comment-54 Bryn Greenwood Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:27:31 +0000 http://www.sothis.ca/?p=878#comment-54 The internet has added some difficulties, not the least of which is this phenomenon: the author or friends of the author showing up on your blog to defend a work that you review or simply discuss in any terms that the author (or author's friends) don't agree with. I liked what one of writing professors once said on the topic of literary analysis: "You don't have a clue what your story is about and you never will. Leave that sort of thing to the readers." The internet has added some difficulties, not the least of which is this phenomenon: the author or friends of the author showing up on your blog to defend a work that you review or simply discuss in any terms that the author (or author’s friends) don’t agree with. I liked what one of writing professors once said on the topic of literary analysis: “You don’t have a clue what your story is about and you never will. Leave that sort of thing to the readers.”

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