Connective Visions

An author’s online tantrum at a review leads to an exploration of what really is different with the Internet.

Camilla Läckberg’s The Ice Princess is a lesson in why writers still need serious editors and reviewers.

Setting online space and real space side by side can prompt a different way to consider our relationships, behaviors, and how we conduct discourse as a society.

A Facebook meme on the literary canon resembles the Internet tendency toward self-referentiality.

A science fiction anthology’s rise demonstrates the grass-roots potential of IT.

Summer vacations can also be ventures away from habit – especially when it comes to the U.S. media and the discussions they generate.

I’ve been pondering my Swedish friend Pelotard’s marvelous blog about his American grill – that is, ever since I finished laughing over it. I’ve also savored the vision of how we might change our commentary on government policies to the type former P

The funny thing about blogging is, if you’ve been on a computer doing something else for two weeks straight, coming back to it doesn’t feel at all like a return. What does feel strange is the act of writing. After a fortnight of immersion in the voca

A few weeks ago, my friend’s Norwegian husband was in Philadelphia and visited the University of Pennsylvania photography-and-text exhibit “Righteous Dopefiend.” When we got together for dinner a week later, he made the point, “I know what a dopefien

At the start of my previous blog, I said I’d explain my passive-aggressive approach to search-engine optimization (SEO) in headlines. That was the passive blog post; this is the aggressive one. Let me start by saying that, yes, I know the name is