{"id":1677,"date":"2010-06-15T21:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2010-06-15T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:25:55","slug":"teens-vampires-and-seventeen-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Teens, Vampires, and Seventeen magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were still teaching magazine writing, I would be sending students to this blog (which I found on Rod Dreher’s blog<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What a great feature-writing idea, albeit in blog form. (Which all goes to show how publishing is changing, &c. &c., and I am glad not to have to be the one to explain it all.)<\/p>\n

In essence, high-school senior Jamie Kelles is attempting to live her life according to the dictates of Seventeen <\/em>magazine\u2014and blogging about it at The Seventeen Magazine Project<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

At one point she realizes that a majority of the mag’s “hot guys of summer” are “associated with a vampire franchise.”<\/p>\n

Must be super weird for devoted Seventeen readers when they finally follows all the tips, achieve the perfect tan and “healthy” sun-kissed glow, and then realizes that the ultimate Hot Guy of Summer is just a sexed-up, long-haired version a of pale, nocturnal Xbox gamer .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there is more about the senior prom, &c. &c.<\/p>\n

If you want more on the literary history of vampires, Michael Sims assesses it\u00a0 in <\/a>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

So, wondering how I would find a new angle on vampire stories, I said yes. Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossipfest, and I love it. I went home and prowled my shelves and realized how many of the Victorian-era stories I had already read. Why, here’s that pasty-faced bastard Lord Ruthven, by Byron’s doctor and hanger-on, John Polidori, and so obviously based upon Byron himself. Here is Th\u00e9ophile Gautier’s crazy priest, in love with a vampire courtesan and wrestling with his naughty soul. And there were many stories I hadn’t read before\u2014gay vampires, child vampires, even an invisible vampire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I were still teaching magazine writing, I would be sending students to this blog (which I found on Rod Dreher’s blog). What a great feature-writing idea, albeit in blog form. 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