Wednesday, October 14
Why Gawker Is So Wrong About Virginia Heffernan’s Book Proposal
It’s actually amazing that someone out there who actually understands the internet is thinking about it all the time. And not the way we think about it, as bloggers (people to whom the internet affords no pleasures anymore) but as a thoughtful writer who only has to write one column per week and thus can go down the kind of rabbit holes most bloggers, with ten deadlines per day or whatever, can only dream of. When was the last time anyone *who is actually a good writer*, *who actually knows the internet*, had the time to examine it with any kind of thoughtfulness? Like, never! Literally never! They’re all too busy blogging! To read the Medium each week is to live vicariously through someone who actually has the time to ruminate and luxuriate in the medium in which most writers, for the most part, either resentfully toil or don’t understand.
Virginia Heffernan’s book is the book we all want to write, but can’t. No pleasures, indeed! I’m a little sad, honestly. Going to spend the rest of the day staring at my hands and this filthy keyboard. White keyboards, what the fuck.
