The most serious problem is that so many writers are more anxious to publish than they are to write the best prose possible. That anyone with an Internet connection can publish anything permits the flood of babble on Facebook, blogs and self-published books and essays. What is needed, and is just beginning to emerge, is a critical filter, sites where intelligent, thoughtful critics offer clues as to what is worth reading — and, of course, a readership savvy enough to tell the difference.