Music critic James Marcus posted an excellent recap of Tuesday night’s panel on the art of online criticism at Makor. The panel included literary blogger Maud Newton (right), arts critic Terry Teachout and New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones (who submitted to one of our interviews last month).

Couldn’t make it? Read on:

[Moderator Bryan Keefer] got the ball rolling by asking the panelists how they became bloggers in the first place. “I was looking to kill time in my cubicle at work,” Newton explained. Teachout took the question a mite more seriously: “At a certain point, it became clear to me that high-culture commentary was going to migrate away from its old outlets, and move onto the Web. And I needed to get there.” Frere-Jones, leaning at an odd angle to address to microphone bolted to his chair, played the levity card: “My entire career has been a long, unending accident. I thought I was in a band for a long time.”