At the Paris Review Daily, a post on what bloggers owe Montaigne: “There seems no end to the appeal of the essayist’s basic idea: that you can write spontaneously and ramblingly about yourself and your interests, and that the world will love you for it.” (via Book Bench)
What Bloggers Owe Montaigne
How to make it out alive
Some practical advice on the Tin House blog: "So, you're going to a writer's conference?"
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“O Warbling Beauty!”
"It can be difficult to talk about Uzbek without soaring into Orientalist flights. 'O warbling beauty of the steppe!' I started to write, like a 19th-century lady traveler." Our own Lydia Kiesling is in the New York Times writing about studying Uzbek and speaking Turkish.
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YA Gay
Two American YA authors, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith, were asked to "straighten" gay characters. Here is the rebuttal that followed.
Fifteen-Love
Recommended Reading: Gerald Marzorati on why Tolstoy played tennis.
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