THE READING EXPERIENCE

 

"The blog, The Reading Experience, is a wonderful place. Daniel Green’s articles are very informed, looking at literary works and literary questions from many perspectives."

--Big Other

 

Founded: 2004

Mission: Longer form literary criticism, commentary on literary culture, links to                     worthwhile criticism elsewhere

Free ebooks: Criticism on selected topics collected and revised: surveys of experimental                                 fiction, American postmodern fiction, innovative women writers, and                             more. Additional information here.

Sidebar items: Critical posts from throughout TRE's 14 year history gathered into thematic                             clusters. Fiction chronicle gathers reviews originating on the blog,                             presented in chronological order.

Reviews and essays by Daniel Green published elsewhere.

 

Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism, published by Cow Eye Press. Information here

    From the Introduction:

I offer this selection of essays as a kind of cross-section of the views I have expressed over the last ten years or so about the goals and practice of literary criticism, views published on my own literary blog, The Reading Experience, as well as in various literary and book review journals. Place of publication has played a large role in determining both the content and the form these essays took, since the blog essentially gave me the freedom to write as I pleased. As it turned out, what pleased me was to critically examine not just works of literature past and present but also the critics and critical methods whose influence helps to determine how “literature” is perceived and how literary works are made meaningful for diverse and at times disparate readers. All of the essays that follow are animated by this impulse to explicate the assumptions behind a practice referred to by a common name—“criticism”—but carried out in numerous and often quite conflicting ways.