Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web (Vintage Original)

Boxer, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0307278069 / ISBN 13: 9780307278067

Published by U.S.A.: Vintage, 2008

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Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Seller Inventory # ABE-17295889398

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild ...

Publisher: U.S.A.: Vintage

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

“What are you working on?”
“An anthology of blogs.”
“I didn’t know you had a blog.”
“I don’t. It’s an anthology of other people’s blogs.”
“How do you find good blogs?”
“I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”
“Is a good blog hard to find?”
“Yes. Very.”

A Book of Blogs? WTF!!

Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs — and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are:

two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable “fugliness” of celebrities
a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006
a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex
an illustrator’s tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap
Odysseus’s sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey
Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web.

About the Author:

Sarah Boxer, formerly a critic and reporter at The New York Times, is the author and illustrator of the cartoon novel "In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.