Crackdown or hysteria?
Will blogs be subject to FEC rules soon, thanks to McCain-Feingold? Bradley Smith, one of the six member of the Federal Election Commission “says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.”
Will blogs be subject to FEC rules soon, thanks to McCain-Feingold? Bradley Smith, one of the six member of the Federal Election Commission “says that the freewheeling days of political blogging and online punditry are over.”
That’s it from me for the week, I’m afraid. Annie Reid, that y’all-embracer, takes over tomorrow and most Fridays. Have a good weekend. I’ll be back soon.
Sorry about yesterday’s long-winded and extravagantly maudlin grandmother post. It was, as you must’ve suspected, the blog equivalent of drinking & dialing. When I get like that, you should respond exactly as you do when your college roommate calls yet again at 2 a.m. to complain about her psychopathic boyfriend: stick your fingers in your ears and hum until it . . .
Philip Roth helps Houghton Mifflin out of a slump. The Miami New Times‘ Brett Sokol brings displaced Miamians like me regular doses of, ahem, South Florida literary and publishing culture. From the latest: “Call it what you will — mindless fluff, starstruck drivel — but Ocean Drive has perfected a formula that’s the envy of the publishing world.” Amy Bloom, . . .
As the University of Iowa auditions candidates to direct its prestigious writing program, students consider whether one of the four contenders, Ben Marcus, might reshape the program to favor the “avant-garde writing style” of his own fiction. The Des Moines Register reports that: Marcus, 37, the director of the fiction-writing program at Columbia University, said he doesn’t mold students’ writing . . .