YOU GOT SERVED
posted by James Reel
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal theater critic and arts-blogger role model, discovers he’s been dissed by a previously unfamiliar blogger, investigates, and comes back with a magnificently withering put-down in the guise of a recommendation:
Interested in knowing exactly what sort of writing the blogger in question thought was worth reading, I spent a few minutes looking over the self-written "serialized blog novels" he'd posted elsewhere on his site, an experience I commend to all connoisseurs of unpublished fiction.Oh, the cruel, cruel gibe. The only term more insulting than “unpublished fiction” is “self-published fiction,” of which I have had the misfortune to proofread much. But at least I get paid for that, which is more than can be said for the self-publishing authors.
