tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056769825595020803.post8250939994048692957..comments2010-07-02T05:40:45.668-07:00Comments on Butterfly Notebook: Reading as ConsolationLucy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07881541116778078576noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056769825595020803.post-60360649444211268092010-06-14T09:31:51.147-07:002010-06-14T09:31:51.147-07:00It’s remarkable how universal this vertiginous fee...It’s remarkable how universal this vertiginous feeling is right now in the world of books – for writers, publishers, agents. As you say, the industry is in turmoil, after a more or less uninterrupted 500 year run in which its methods, both mechanical and commercial, have gone unchanged. And yet . . . however they are delivered and sold, people will still want to engage with and lose themselves in words that extend beyond the length of an article, or a web posting (I believe someone recently called it, rather inelegantly, ‘longform writing’) because there is, quite simply, nothing else to touch it. All other art forms, however high or low, are much more passively ‘received’; the writer asks the reader to meet her half-way. It’s unique and, when it works, the effect is electrifying. That will not be foresworn, and though it’ll take a while to come through all of this, we will. We musn’t let the fear overwhelm us; we, you, will get there!AndrewKAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10551612213546716758noreply@blogger.com