In your review of Lennard Davis’ Obsession: A History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) you point out that he devotes an entire chapter to graphomania, the madness of incessant writing (“The Double Face of Single-Mindedness,” November 1, 2008). Like any other form of obsession, it is both a mental illness and a cultural ideal, which Davis connects to the obsessive-compulsive disorder that has gone from extremely rare to extremely common in just a few recent decades. The first thing that popped in my mind in this connection was blogging, a true craze of our age, but your review only mentions the graphomania of Balzac and Zola, the Nineteenth-Century writers who were lionized in their time for “the continuous, cumulative production of words.” I hope the book does not suffer from this omission, but a quick Internet search for the connection between graphomania and blogging yields nothing about Davis’s ideas. A missed opportunity, to say the least.