Writer and literary critic Daniel Green (The Reading Experience) has set up a new website that will offer critical literary essays which, knowing Dan’s work, will offer professional indepth insight into some of the most interesting writings of the day. While I do certainly appreciate the diversity of opinion and angles offered by the online community in offering literary evaluations, I’ve come to depend upon Dan for guidance in reading and well as how to define what is important in literature.
Critical Distance is planned as a “perspective on American fiction since 1980” and will focus on work that is of substance and may prove enduring, rather than what’s hot or current. While Dan has started out with an essay on Affliction by Russel Banks, it appears that he will be open to submissions on readings with a guideline of “-Critical essays about single texts that through close reading and other analytical methods make a case for the work under consideration as an important work of fiction.”
I’m sure Dan will create a following from his readers of The Reading Experience as well as draw from an audience thirsty for discussion of literature.
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