John Baker’s Blog

1. Why do you blog?
To write down my ideas about the idea-based subjects in life that interest me - books, reading, writing, publishing, science and the web, in particular the social science & technology aspects of the web. Since starting blogging, I have connected with a small group of people who have overlapping interests, so [...]

The miraculous yield of 1922.
The year of Ulysses, The Waste Land, Rilke’s Dueno Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus(written in three days). Of Brecht’s first play, Baal, Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod. Virginia Wolfe’s Jacob’s Room, Proust’s Sodom and Gomorrah, Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christy, Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt, Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned Galsworthy’s The [...]