John Baker’s Blog

This is the last post in this series. Thank you to everyone who participated, posters and commentors alike.
1. Why do you blog?
I spend most of my time writing. My first love is the novel and faced with a novel to write I find myself committed to a single project for months or years. Blogging has [...]

1. Why do you blog?
Dangerous question. Like asking a fly fisherman why he wades out into an icy cold stream in the grim pre-dawn light on a bitter morning in early spring or like asking a model railroader why he dons a blue and white striped engineer’s cap and red bandana and disappears down [...]

1. Why do you blog?
I blog to weigh in on what I’m reading; to perform finger-exercises for writing and explore possible future topics; to feel connected to a literary world even when I’m a bit housebound with two small children.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Even though I didn’t read Virginia Woolf until [...]

1. Why do you blog?
Well, at least in part as a modest public service, primarily to myself, surely, or whenever we decide to meet, but also as an offering without condition. No delusional fantasies of actual political pull, certainly, though a stronger counter-balance to the middlebrow hegemony in literature would be nice. Nothing [...]