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...well, some poorly - but there's a whole vast universe that picture leaves out. That universe is people who are blogging not to reach a large audience, necessarily [or] to supplement their income. They're doing it to express themselves, to find out what it's like to write in public and to tell something of their own lives and experiences...
What's next for blogs? Text blogs will not change that much. They are a mature and established form, and people who write on the Web will continue to find them useful. Video is in a state of huge growth; video blogging and podcasting are extensions of blogging in different directions. Personally, I find it much harder to consume a lot of video, but I'm middle-aged at this point. I'm sure there are people who are going to figure out how to do things with video online that I can't even imagine...
...Staggering Genius, critics labeled Dave Eggers the voice of a new generation. English majors adored him. The Pulitzer committee nominated him. But Eggers seemed relatively unaffected by his newfound fame. He launched a successful independent publishing house, McSweeney's, started an after-school tutoring center and went on to write a series of books that ranged from the wholly fictional (You Shall Know Our Velocity) to the almost entirely true (What Is the What). Now he has entered new literary territory with a thoroughly researched, completely factual account of one man's struggles during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. That...
What about his story made you say, "I want to write a whole book about this man"? His family's story presents a very unique intersection of what happened during one of the worst natural disasters in American history and the problematic tendrils of the war on terror. The dysfunctional criminal-justice system, a terrorism-focused military, the Bush years - I think that what happened to Zeitoun could only have happened with the intersection of all of these forces. Wrongful incarceration is an interest of mine, so it touched me on a personal level...
There's a school of thought among creative writers that journalism is not "real" writing, that only fiction or creative nonfiction is art. Do you agree? Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book. When I teach kids at [my tutoring center] 826 Valencia, the first thing I do is I send them out to report. They sign up for a class that they think is going...