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Snarking Mr. Updike

In a recent interview with the Rocky Mountain News, John Updike had this to say about blogs:

“You type in your blog, and some other people read it, and so you create a print society apart from real society and you’re getting the gratification of expressing yourself . . . . It’s a way to develop a public persona, but it’s very undiscriminating, and very ‘me-minded.’ We’re all me-minded. We all have egos.”

For this, Miss Snark (who, according to her blog, “vents her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushes them to sand beneath her T.Rexual heels of stiletto snark”) dubbed Updike the “Nitwit of the Day.” She also does a quick edit on his comments:

“You type your novel and some other people read it, and so you create a print society apart from real society and you’re getting the gratification of expressing yourself . . . . It’s a way to develop a public persona, but it’s very undiscriminating, and very ‘me-minded.’ We’re all me-minded. We all have egos.”

Yowch! Zing! Burn! Oh snap!

(Thanks to Books, Inq. for the link.)

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