What more could you want in a blogger than Scott Esposito – the critic, editor, and writer who runs Conversational Reading? He’s smart, opinionated, reasoned in his judgments, internationally eclectic in his tastes, and plugged into lots of next new things in literary circles.
We read a Roberto Bolano story in the New Yorker this week, and lo, Esposito has written a piece called “The Bolano Myth,” a summary of South American author Horacio Castellanos Moya’s contention that U.S. merchandisers have packaged Bolano as the archetypal South American author he’s not. Interesting.
Like Kaze, Esposito is a fine list-maker – witness his fascinating Books To Watch For in 2010. Could it be that we’ve found an incarnation of the lost Common Reader of Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf?
Ted the Cat (1994-present) is a domestic shorthair blogger and vers libre poet. He also enjoys sleeping, eating, and lurking. Ted the Cat co-habits with Kaze,
also a blogger at 317am.net.
