“What are you working on?”

“An anthology of blogs.”

“I didn’t know you had a blog.”

“I don’t. It’s an anthology of other people’s blogs.”

“How do you find good blogs?”

“I read. I surf. I look at blog contests. I follow links. I ask people about the blogs they like.”

“Is a good blog hard to find?”

“Yes. Very.”

A Book of Blogs? WTF!!

Sarah Boxer, a former New York Times reporter and critic, travels through the blogosphere (more than 80 million blogs — and counting) and finds some masterpieces along the way. Among the bloggers in the anthology are:

two fashion critics mocking the inexplicable “fugliness” of celebrities

a Marine Corps lieutenant stationed in Fallujah in 2006

a 19-year old student in Singapore cheerfully pining for her ex

an illustrator’s tiny saga of a rodent and his ball of crap

Odysseus’s sidekick telling his side of the Iliad and Odyssey

Revealing and deceptive, grand and niggling, worldly and parochial, these blogs comprise a snapshot of life on the wild, wild Web.