my friend Mollie

If you find the tension between print authors and bloggers interesting, you've got to check out this story about my friend Mollie on huffingtonpost.com:

WOW. If New Yorker writer John Colapinto really is the "John" posting in the comments section of this post on the blog "Restricted View" (see update — yes, he is), then he really does not like it when his work is criticized. For her part, Restricted View blogger Mollie Wilson, a contributor to Village Voice , American Theatre and Nextbook did not like Colapinto's article on Paul McCartney in last week's New Yorker, called "When I'm Sixty-Four: Paul McCartney And His Music," or, as she thought he ought to have called it, "How I spent a week wasting Paul McCartney's time." Ouch! ...

Do you think John Colapinto — or the man we are assuming was John Colapinto* — was going to take that lying down? Oh, no! He was there at 11:07 am, a scant three hours after the post went up, to let her know just how wrong she was....

And with that, a comments-section flamewar to rival the famed Apatow-Brazill correspondence was on. ...

It's New Media, pure and simple — and that is precisely what is driving Colipinto batty. Who is this person who dares to criticize him? Some....blogger?

Read the whole story here and the original post with comments here.