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LITERARY COMMENTARY
As of today, A Commonplace Blog will be succeeded by a new book blog hosted and sponsored by Commentary magazine. The new blog will be called Literary Commentary. This is its RSS feed.
Like this one, the new book blog will contain reviews of new books and reconsiderations of older books. It will contribute to Commentary magazine’s work of “tak[ing] inventory in and increase the storehouse of the best that has been thought and said.” Many of the same features will also be features of the new blog—book lists, the rediscovery of neglected writers, the careful dismantling of badly constructed literary reputations. A Commonplace Blog will continue to exist, but as an archive.
Literary Commentary will focus on the current literary scene. It will contain “news” of the book world, the publishing industry, the Republic of Letters. But more than anything, it will concentrate furiously—perhaps I should say pitilessly—on the question whether this book or that is any good.
Thank you with all my soul to the readers who have stuck with A Commonplace Blog till now. And I hope you will join me regularly in the activity of Literary Commentary. Again, you can subscribe to its RSS feed here.
UPDATE: Comments will be enabled at the Commentary site in a week or two.
UPDATE, II: Link fixed. (We didn’t like the original URL for the blog.)
10 comments:
Congratulations and best wishes! It's a great fit.
Will you have comments at your new home, or do we have to resort to email to argue with you?
D. J., will the new blog allow readers some type of comment capacity or ability to easily write to you? I know that Commentary Contentions got rid of their comments feature a couple of years ago. I've enjoyed the comments on A Commonplace Blog and will miss them on the new blog, assuming that Literary Commentary will have the same "no comments" policy as Commentary Contentions.
Congratulations, it's great to have you back.
I hope there will be a dedicated RSS-feed at some point, as the current feed also includes the Contentions posts.
Dear Professor Myers, Congratulations! I, for one, will be one of your readers at Literary Commentary. Yours, Paul Strassfield
First off, congratulations! I actually discovered this blog through the post on Commentary. Well done!
Just a quick question, is there any way to reach you by e-mail?
Thanks,
Arieh L
Will there be a list of blogs that you like? I am also afraid that it won't be the same--you won't respond to other blogs or maintain that informal character which made your blog a destination. Things change, nothing remains.
Does not appear to be an RSS feed at the new blog? Or am I just blind?
The RSS feed will be up in the next day or so. Comments will be enabled within the next week or so. My blogroll here at A Commonplace Blog will remain current—or at least as current as I can keep it.
As for the informality of Literary Commentary—well, you’ll just have to wait and see.
The link to Literary Commentary is broken or the page was moved of lost on Commentary.
I'm enjoying your first few days' worth of postings over at Literary Commentary very much. I'll be genuinely amazed if you're able to keep up both the quality and quantity of posts over the long term (even the medium term). If you can manage it, you're a much better man than I am! Good luck and God bless.
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