Editor's Eye (C.M. Mayo): Notes Toward a Taxonomy of Litblogs

Litblogging--- blogging literature--- both competes with and complements print-publishing. To what degrees and in which ways? It's a strange and still emerging paradigm. Writers blog, reviewers blog, poets, groups of writers, associations of translators, you name it--- and of course, publishers blog. A few new blogs in the latter category include News from the University of Georgia Press and Zyzzyva Speaks, the blog of the San Francisco, California-based Zyzzyva literary journal. (Howard Junker, you rock.)

I'm fascinated by the variety of litblogs. As for blogs by writers: Washington DC-based fiction writer Wendi Kaufman has a newsy and massively read litblog, The Happy Booker. Another example is poet and memoirist E. Ethelbert Miller's diary jottings at E-Notes. Yet another: Mexican writer Agustin Cadena, author of "Carne verde, piel negra ~ An Avocado from Michoacan", Tameme's first chapbook, posts original writing on his blog, El vino y la hiel.