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Lit Blog wars are good for you. 

The literary journal n + 1 just stirred up a whole new round of lit blog wars in a recent essay called "The Blog Reflex." I still haven't picked up the issue at the bookstore, but it's already--as intended--stirring up plenty of blogged attention.

I love these sprawling Controversies over the future of literary journalism. When lit bloggers rally, they publish all sorts of wonderful links to Great Moments in Lit Blogging. Which means more quality reading for us. 

Let's not fight. Let's read. Start with this fabulous, link-full post from The Millions about lit blog milestones:  

"For example, Scott Esposito's Quarterly Conversation, an extension of his excellent blog, recently ran the most considered critique I've yet read of William H. Gass' The Tunnel... and I've read many of them. The Lit-Blog Co-op, mixing old-fashioned boosterism with serious discussion, helps to bring overlooked novels, many of them progressive and anti-capitalist, to the public's attention... Ed Champion's recent round-table on Against the Day, meanwhile, offered readers much-needed context for that profoundly leftist novel."

Thanks to Sarah Weinman for the link...