There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

Considering that "literary fiction" is a sub-genre that's not quite the same as "literature," either, it follows that the short, semi-humorous bits posted online for all to see are something absolutely other, uniquely themselves compared to canonical short stories, for example, and so it'd probably be best to call it something other than "online lit" since I honestly think very little of it can compare to so-called "literature."

I don't have a philosophy. I have an instinct. I accept stuff that I like.