Profiles
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The best blog profiles are worth putting with the print profiles, but the average blog profile soon reveals why print pays a writer money and a blog doesn’t. Without the weight and responsibility of an institution behind it, a profile can easily degenerate into a work of fiction reflecting no thought, judgement or even literacy. On this list of profiles I have tried to keep to the rule by which if the writer can’t write he or she shouldn’t be writing about writing. So you may take it for granted that I approve of the style, at least. Sometimes I would have to be a fool to endorse the opinions, but the really nasty opinions aren’t here. Since they are almost invariably expressed in pre-mental language, I feel only a tinge of guilt at leaving them out. But there is no doubt about the great thrill of being mentioned by an enthusiastic young blogger. There can be no commercial motive, so it must come from genuine interest; and one is always interested in being thought interesting.
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Obituaries, Tributes and Reminiscences
- David Free in Quadrant: The Texture of Reality
- Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker
- Michael Deacon in the Daily Telegraph
- Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian
- Melissa Denes in the Guardian
- Robert McCrum in the Guardian
- Howard Jacobson in the Guardian
- The Times
- Andrew Billen in the Times
- Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times
- Rachel Cooke in The Observer: the final interview
- John Naughton in The Observer
- John Simpson in The Observer
- Morten Høi Jensen in The American Interest
- Sam Leith in The Spectator
- Adam Gopnik on Slate's Culture Gabfest Podcast (from 31 minutes in)