John Baker’s Blog

1. Why do you blog?
I’ve always had life journals, starting with a small five-year red diary when I was about ten years old. (I still have it too.) Then notebooks of various types, advancing to typed pages in looseleaf binders. Naturally, with the advent of online journaling, I began a blog. Progess, I suppose. But [...]

1. Why do you blog?
To maintain a log for myself, like a journal - share the information with friends who have similar interests - make new friends with similar interests, and get their perspective as well.
2. Which author and/or book has most influenced you?
Karl Marx, too many writings to list.
3. Which three blogs do you [...]

We were at a reading by JM Coetzee at the University this afternoon.
Coetzee’s early life was in South Africa. In the early sixties he lived in England, working as a computer programmer while doing research for a thesis on the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. Later in that decade he was in Texas studying for [...]