1. Smart (of course) review of "Sweet Lechery" from @michelledean: http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/02/jeet-heer-sweet-lechery-review … The book as a cocktail party.
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2. Michelle's governing metaphor that the book is like a cock-tail party is flattering, and I hope accurate.
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3. Obsessive returning to certain authors is partially an artifice of editing: out of thousand plus essays, I chose ones echoed each other
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4. I wanted the collection to have the cohesiveness of a book, which is why I (and editor) selected recursive essays.
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5. To put it another way, I could've assembled a book (and probably will in future) where Munro & Atwood loom as large as Roth & Updike
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@michelledean's right that my twitter persona will, inevitably, shape how the book is read. It's inescapable, for good or for ill.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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7. There's another way in which this twitter feed is connected to book: tweeting has given me more confidence in opinions.
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8. Tweeting has given me a sense that there is some audience for my essays, which is one reason book was assembled.
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9. More radically, tweeting is making me rethink the possibilities of the essay form, & reshaping how I write.
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