you can call me boots.

“Maybe it is the tendency to conflate a distant narrative voice with snobbery (e.g. a knock on Henry James), but in our near-universal platform culture, Fitzgerald, Hemingway and McCullers are threshold figures for American literary fiction. They offer visitors welcome to a capacious, echo-ridden structure that is said, like the mansion on which The Great Gatsby was based, to be scheduled for demolition. In part, their power seems a function of how easy it is to identify, to see oneself in the intelligent woman committed beyond all reason to a tragic relationship, the golden, high-jumping boy whose flight was broken in time, the iconic adventurer whose radical individualism led ultimately to despair.”

— From “What Is Already Living,” via The Rumpus

Read this. Ties social media, technology, writing and biography (specifically autobiography) into a nice, juicy essay. Yum.