*I guess it would take some odd-ball Beat-style wandering Spanish-language Chilean blogger to say that.
http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/?q=en/node/5504
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"You have said that “every day the new writers are becoming more similar to each other (just like the old guard)” and that many do it so that “their photo ends up on the newspaper society pages” or to pick up a woman. For you, what is the best reason to write non-fiction, or any type of story?
"The need for recognition is something inherent in the human being. And this recognition can come from a critic, from pictures of your social life, or from a woman. None of the three seem bad to me. On the contrary, if your work gets you this, it is healthy. What I don't think… is to write only for that. Writing only about misery, to get money or a scholarship, seems shameless. Hitting on only the most obvious points, just to be praised by a well-thinking newspaper is easy. To approach frivolity and humor, just for frivolity and humor's sake, is silly. I don’t know the ultimate reason why I write a story, but I suppose it is a mixture of many things and obsessions and weaknesses and ambitions. ..."
*Or, maybe the digital revolution isn't very literary at all:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/ebooks
