The Blork Blog

Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a “microblogging” service that limits your posts to 140 characters. It differs from conventional blogging in that it all happens within twitter.com (although there are inputs and outputs for mobile devices and other feed mechanisms). You read people’s “tweets” by “following” them. Whereas regular blogging is more like broadcasting, Twitter [...]

A few years ago I read the V.S. Naipaul novel Half a Life. It was my first Naipaul. I was never really sure what was going on, but I enjoyed his prose style, and it was somewhat light and comic while still being (ahem) literary. Last week I picked up W. Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s [...]