Let's be brutally honest: I do not want to read the work of "everyone". Just the ones who can write well in a language I can read. [1] In this century, when ev

Let's be brutally honest: I do not want to read the work of "everyone". Just the ones who can write well in a language I can read. [1] In this century, when everyone with at least a smidgen of desire can publish to a worldwide audience, and when anyone who doesn't want a worldwide audience has to carefully hide their paper diary lest someone scan it, the assumption that most good contemporary writers can be found on the web is not half bad, and it gets better every day. --- [1] there is, of course, always room for a larger variety of people to take up the art of writing well in English.