… as one of the New York notables.
Maud Newton, maudnewton.com
For those exhausted by most media-centric blogs? obsession with either glossy stock or newsprint, there?s Maud Newton, a Brooklyn-based fiction writer whose eponymous blog obsesses over books. Last week, for instance, she blogged about (and weighed in on other bloggers blogging about) wunderkind novelist Zoe Trope, David Foster Wallace?s new math book, Pamela Anderson?s $2 million book deal, James Atlas?s Times Magazine profile of Dale Peck, and, for good measure, she threw in a passage from Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre?s Vernon God Little.
?I started blogging on a lark,? she says, ?while procrastinating on a novel I was and am supposedly writing.? Publishing types return the favor by using it to procrastinate from whatever they?re actually supposed to be doing. The blog gets her out of her Greenpoint apartment, too, to meet with other bloggers, who she then shocks ?by failing to be the firebrand they expected after reading my site.?
This makes me feel way-cool because Maud’s one of my regular readers, and she even sends me attaboys now and then.