Culture: Grievance counseling
Several years ago, I had an experience that forced me to confront an aspect of myself I had denied for many years.
It began when a friend forwarded me a link to a prominent literary blog launched by a guy who clearly was not a fan of my writing. “The adulation accorded Steve Almond constitutes one of the blogosphere’s enduring mysteries,” he began. “From the very first days of this site, I’ve shaken my head in a sort of dazed wonder at the wake of overheated prose stylings the guys [sic] leaves behind.”
As chance would have it, a few months later I was invited to take part in an event that…
