John Baker’s Blog

Girl Friday at The Friday Project squirms over the latest news on the front of publishers’ advances:
Over $4 million for a book by a man whose personal fortune stands at around $162 million. Good God, like he needs the money. Maybe all of this obscene advance will go to his Preparatory Academy but my [...]

My mother, head in oven, died
And me, already dead inside
I was an empty tin
Where nothing rattled in.
Time magazine has an interview with Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, on the occasion of the publication of 45, a new collection of poems. The title refers to Frieda Hughes’ age and the volume [...]

Here’s my plan (because it’s good to have a plan) : I am aiming to read 100 books from 100 different countries in one year.
The plan belongs to the blogger behind the website and the year in question is already more than halfway through. The books read include novels by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (Spain), [...]