John Baker’s Blog

Is really a new wordpress theme. All seems to be working as it should, at least in the browsers that I’ve checked. If you find anything on the site that doesn’t work, please let me know.
I still have some tinkering to do with it, but overall I’m quite pleased with the look.
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If you haven’t seen Marion Ettlinger’s Gallery, which consists of photographic portraits of writers, then now’s your chance. The gallery opens with a study of Truman Capote taken in 1982.
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Over at Chekhov’s Mistress, another review of the Sony Reader:
At the fashionable yet oddly cold Sony store on Madison Avenue I checked out the much ballyhooed [...]

The Sony Reader has arrived. If you follow the link you can see a demonstration. About the size of a paperback it has enough memory to hold the contents of around 80 books, and it will take an extra memory card if that’s not enough for you. You can also play mp3 and audio files [...]

The Russian Futurist writer Mayakovsky wrote:
In order to write about the tenderness of love, take bus number 7 from Lubyansky Square to Nogin Square. The appalling jolting will serve to throw into relief for you, better than anything else, the charm of a life transformed.
Mechanization, the Futurists believed, shaped not only perception (as it did [...]