Grub Street 2.0 Recap

I was about to write-up the Grub Street 2.0 panel from last week, but then someone showed me a writer in the audience named Richard Grayson has recorded it practically verbatim (thank you, Richard!) You can read his dispatch here, which is great, and another here from NBCC member Michael Orthofer, who captures a point I wish I had made/asked while the panelists were in the room. The internet has certainly -- at least for me -- helped to internationalize book coverage. One can read the literary news of any English speaking country in the world now at no cost instantaneously, and with a little dusting off of your high school English/Spanish/German, that of many other foreign countries, too. I can't help but think that will change the nature of literary discourse, and make old blind-spots a little less defendible as the literary community begins to be defined by what one can find with their browser, not at their bookstore. (Although it won't help if we continue to translate as few books as we do at the moment). Still, I'm curious if this has already begun to change literary coverage (in all medium) today.

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