Is e-mail costing us our literary history?

By Leon Sterling, Unfiltered 9-05-05

It would seem that once, just this once, my musings may have preceded published thoughts in the New York Times. I wondered "aloud" whether blogging was killing democracy after the resignation of Sandra Day O'Connor. Yesterday's Times echoed those sentiments in relation to our literary history: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04DONADIO.html

The back story on most stories are often the most intersting stories. I can actually add a postsript to the Times article: I lived in the same building in Manhattan where Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick had once had their apartment. By the time I moved in there, Robert Lowell had died. But Elizabeth Hardwick apparently had a hard time carrying on without him. There was a mysterious fire there one day, and Elizabeth Hardwick didn't seem in a hurry to leave.

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