Competition

Jennifer Schuessler mines the new NEA report on artists in the U.S. economy for this terrifying statistic:

Between 1990 and 2000, the number of writers in the United States increased by 21.5 percent, during a time when the population as a whole increased only 13.2 percent.

And that was before the blogging era began.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2008/06/competition/54171/