Blog Closes

“There’s always space to do whatever you want. You won’t get as much attention, but fuck attention. Fight for integrity. Now everyone has a TinyLetter instead of a blog. As soon as the first writer got a book deal for a TinyLetter, everyone’s TinyLetter just became book-deal bait, written the same way. This weird conformity just takes over as soon as the possibility of money or access or respectability comes up. That’s disappointing.”
 — This is what I’ve chosen to pull out of Boris Kachka’s interview with Jessa Crispin, who is shutting down her antediluvian web log Bookslut, but I could really have pulled out almost anything, because the entire interview is so blunt and pointed that it makes you cringe, cheer and feel ashamed of yourself all at the same time. Read if you dare.