INTRODUCTION
AngryBlackBitch, Pamela Merritt
Becker-Posner Blog, Gary S. Becker and Richard Posner
Click Opera, Nick Currie
Cosmic Variance, Sean Carroll
El Guapo in DC, author known as El Guapo
Eurotrash, Delly Hayward
Get Your War On, David Rees
Go Fug Yourself, Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks
How to Learn Swedish in 1000 Difficult Lessons, author known as
Francis Strand
I Blame The Patriarchy, Jill Posey-Smith
In The Middle, Raed Jarrar
Ironic Sans, David Friedman
Its raining noodles!, Angelique Chan
Johnny i hardly knew you, Jennie Portnof
Julia {Here Be Hippogriffs}, Julia Litton
Language Log, Benjamin Zimmer
Matthew Yglesias, Matthew Yglesias
Micrographica, Renée French
Midnight in Iraq, Jeffrey Barnett
Nina Paley.com, Nina Paley
Old Hag, Lizzie Skurnick
Radio.Uruguay, Dmitri Goutnik
Rootless Cosmopolitan, Tony Karon
The Rest Is Noise, Alex Ross
The Smoking Gun, William Bastone
Under Odysseus, Mark Katakowski
HOW TO FIND BLOGS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sarah Boxer, formerly a critic and reporter at The New York Times, is the author and illustrator of the cartoon novel "In the Floyd Archives- A Psycho-Bestiary." She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and son.
“Winning. . . Bold. . . . Provides a rousing awareness that many
people, in many places, are thinking, feeling, and eager to
connect.”
—The New Republic
“Aptly eclectic. . . . Ultimate Blogs does exactly what it’s
supposed to do.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Eclectic anthology of superb writing.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Turning a book nerd into a blog fiend can prove to be as difficult
a transition as turning a blogger into an author. But that doesn’t
mean it’s impossible — quite the opposite, particularly given the
overall curatorial tone Boxer displays here. Celebrated on paper
and ink, protected from the snark, the fawning, the bitchiness, the
link whoring, and the exhausting self-referential attacks, the
Internet in Ultimate Blogs is cherished in a wide-eyed, doting
manner that even the most popular bloggers don’t seem to enjoy very
much anymore.”
—The Boston Phoenix
“Most of Boxer’s selections don’t read like a new species of
writing, but like very close cousins of once-venerable print genres
that have been forced out of public discourse by the shrinkage of
major American media: passionate arts criticism, critical theory,
colorful polemics, and, above all, the personal essay.”
—New York Magazine
“A provocative introduction to the art form.”
—Baltimore Sun
“One way to find blogs worth reading . . . . [A] Norton Anthology
of Blogging.”
—The New York Times
“Here you'll find excerpts from 27 online journals-comprising
punditry, poetry, ranting, raving and drawing of both pictures and
conclusions. You'll also find some wonderful writing; you'll laugh,
cry and scratch your head. . . .Boxer has gone out of her way to
seek out content that can make the leap from one medium to
another.”
—Newsweek
“[Ultimate Blogs] serves as a gateway to some true Web gems.”
—Rocky Mountain News
“. . . the real utility of Ultimate Blogs might be as a relic of an
odd, fleeting cultural moment when unfettered online
self-expression was still new enough to seem worth documenting but
was actually old enough to be decadent.”
—New York Observer
“Boxer brings a generalist's curiosity to her task, finding
engaging writing on classical music, miscarriage, Iraq and more. .
.The common thread is the excellent (and personal and sometimes
edgy) writing.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Boxer displays tastes so broad as to accommodate ingratiating
cranks and cunning charmers alike, and she hurdles what would seem
to be the chief problem of assembling such a book—the likelihood of
its emerging as fresh as Best American Weather Reports 2007—by
seizing upon posts with a literary bent and respectable
half-life.”
—Slate Magazine
“Sarah Boxer, ex of The New York Times, culls mightily from the
Amazons, Niles and Mississippis of blog flow. Her journey begins as
a blog neophyte, and ends in her Top 25 blog choices. Many of the
destinations are funny and fascinating, not to mention attractive
in their intentions.
—Paste Magazine
“. . [Sarah Boxer’s} journey into the unruly realm of blogging is a
journey of self-discovery. “
—Houston Chronicle
“Sarah Boxer, who has assembled a little print anthology of blog
"writing." Which means that her task is two-fold, actually:
explaining blogs to old people and justifying collecting them into
a book to herself. How does she fare? Hilariously!”
—Gawker
“Much of the writing contained in the book is well worth browsing
for even the most hardened Web aficionado . . . Benjamin Zimmer's
“Language Log” reads like a wonderfully expansive and more
self-aware William Safire column, while Sean Carroll's “Cosmic
Variance” manages to be wryly humorous even while discussing
theoretical physics at the Ph.D. level. Ringers like Alex Ross of
The New Yorker and Matthew Yglesias of The Atlantic Monthly hardly
seem like fair choices to demonstrate the democratization of the
Web, but their blogs, on music and classical politics,
respectively, are must-reads…”
—Publishers Weekly
“Interesting authors, different viewpoints, good writing, and you
can curl up with it next to the fire.”
—Library Journal
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