In today’s lowbrow world, face-to-face conversations about serious literature can be hard to come by. But then, that’s what the Internet is for, and a new generation of lit-blogs has sprung up, to the delight of obsessive readers everywhere. “It’s infinitely appealing for a person who loves to read and aims to write to slip through the wardrobe into a parallel world where other people actually care about books; where Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem aren’t just boldface names but animated superheroes forced to face the wrath of supervixen Candace Bushnell.”