My Newly Acquired Byliner.com Account

The first author that I began following on Byliner was Zadie Smith. I chose her immediately upon seeing her name because I'm a huge fan of her as a novelist, so I was very excited to see that the website has some of her short stories. I read her book On Beauty for a Women in Literature class last year and absolutely loved it, and after the class was over I went out and bought White Teeth to read on my own. I haven't read any of her pieces on Byliner yet, but judging from the titles it seems like she writes about a much more varied group of topics than she does in her novels.

Next, I started following Evan Wright -- probably for very simple, gratuitous reasons, however. I first noticed his story "Scenes From My Life in Porn" and I was interested in seeing more of his work. The rest of his subjects range from war to anarchists to the inner workings of Hollywood, and of course I was very interested in all of them in the same way anyone would be interested in such flashy subjects. His bio says that he has written for both Hustler and Vanity Fair, which also intrigues me very much (how one writer can contribute to such opposite publications).

Finally, I started following arts writer Alex Pappademas. Though he doesn't have a bio on the site, he writes articles on topics like teenage werewolves and Winona Ryder, extremely popular elements of pop culture. I am interested in his writing because it has always been my dream to write for a music publication, and I thought that through following him I will be able to see what it's like to write about entertainment.