“How can you star in your own reality show if people don’t know where you are?”
Canada’s National Post is running excerpts from Finding The Words, a new book of essays on writing — including a fantastic piece by historical and fantasy novelist Guy Gavriel Kay on ‘authors in cyberspace’ and the consequent ‘disappearance of the space between author and consumer and between author and work’.
The piece goes beyond talking just about authors, though, and looks at the accelerating phenomenon of ‘self-exposure’. As Gavriel Kay says: “privacy as a value becomes eroded, or superseded by exposure as a value.” (Link via Jonathan Strahan, via James Bradley.)