Maxine Hong Kingston, 68, speaking at the 2008 National Book Awards ceremony this week remarked on the power of the Internet. After a political piece she wrote earlier this year was rejected by every newspaper she submitted it to, she decided to post it online.
All I had to do was type, then click a button marked publish. Yes, there is such a button. Click, publish. Voila, I was published," she said. The response was instantaneous, she said. "They chose me to be their Facebook friend. I felt young again. All that rejection, then miraculous publication and making new friends all over the Worldwide Web."
Yes, the Internet kind of rocks.
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