Helpful posts for writers

A few blog finds:

 Jim Harrington’s Six Questions For… blog runs brief interviews with editors at literary journals and small presses  (Coachella Review, Crab Creek Review, Our Stories, Dzanc Books, Prime Number — mostly newer, less-known lit mags, it looks like).

Check out this recent post from novelist and teacher Alexander Chee, on the whys and hows of author blogging — maybe it’s all been said before, but he says it all so beautifully.  I like to read his blog now and then for the his thoughts on writing, politics, literature, teaching.  He did a great three-part series a while back when/whether to get your MFA.

And a response to Jennifer Weiner’s noisy irritation with Jonathan Franzen and his literary darling status.  (Franzenfreude, she calls it on Twitter.  Pretty funny.)