EXTREMELY MELODRAMATICAND INCREDIBLY SAD:
Why Jonathan Safran Foer's ballyhooed new novel is cause for despair
a MobyLives guest column by Steve Almond
The more I thought about it, the more I was reminded of our current political dichotomy. The critics who have chided Safran Foer (myself included) sound a lot like the blue–state pundits. No matter how eloquently we state the argument, we're basically telling people they're unsophisticated (read: stupid) if they dug ELIC. And those people know that they're being talked down to. Indeed, our snobbery only reaffirms their devotion. (A typical assessment: "I usually don't do reviews on Amazon, but I found it necessary for this book, because I've been reading many negative reviews in newspapers and literary magazines and all those sorts of places...")

and wow, MobyLives :
"Dennis Loy Johnson, deserves to be mentioned here for his famously anti–establishment blog postings (this newspaper's books coverage came under regular fire), his focus on the good work that gets lost in the publishing shuffle and his intriguing guest column series." — David Orr, The New York Times Book Review
"There is an intelligent, earnest, unpetty, non–narcissistic, un–gawking way to cover the publishing industry." — Sarah Stodola, MeThree.net
"MobyLives towers above all other literary weblogs."— Michael Orthofer, The Complete Review

---go back to scan the recent news digests

...came to the site via search about magazine Lingua Franca
then, in a scan of archived columns found one about
Dalkey Archive Press [CENTER FOR BOOK CULTURE]
"the site of perhaps the most quietly subversive publisher in the country" - great.
no Vernacular press mention - yet -?