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G.M. Baker

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Born in England to a teamster's son and a coal miner's daughter, G. M. (Mark) Baker now lives in Nova Scotia with his wife, no dogs, no horses, and no chickens. He prefers driving to flying, desert vistas to pointy trees, and quiet towns to bustling cities. As a reader and as a writer, he does not believe in confining himself to one genre. He writes about kind abbesses and melancholy kings, about elf maidens and ship wreckers and shy falconers, about great beauties and their plain sisters, about sinners and saints and ordinary eccentrics. In his newsletter Stories All the Way Down, he discusses history, literature, the nature of story, and how not to market a novel.

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Why Are There No Great Novels Anymore

Lisa Libes asks a good question in this note:

If time, attention, money, and people were all it took, this should be the golden age of the novel. But clearly it is not. We could have a lively debate about what the last great novel was, but any way you slice it, it’s been a while.

I refer you here to Joseph Bottom’s book, The Decline of the Novel, which talks about how the novel has lost its place a

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“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history”
― Cardinal Francis George

tags: bishop, catholic, martyr, religion, truth, worldliness

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