Archive - Stories All the Way Down by G. M. Baker

What Makes Prose Good?

Can you separate good prose from good storytelling?

Jun 30 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

Against the Novel of Ideas

I don’t like the novel of ideas.

Jun 21 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

The Wanderer and the Way 27

This is Chapter 27 of The Wanderer and the Way, now available for purchase.

Jun 7 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

Experience and Meaning in Fiction

Meaning doesn't mean what you think it means

Jun 1 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

May 2025

The Wanderer and the Way 26

A Letter from Home

May 31 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

The Wanderer and the Way 25

The Gift of the Cross

May 24 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

The Wanderer and the Way 24

Glee and Melancholy

May 17 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

The Wanderer and the Way 23

May 10 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

The Wanderer and the Way 22

A Sane and Proper Love

May 3 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

April 2025

Present Tense Fiction and the Flight from The Law

Liza Libes is entirely correct that the use of the present tense in contemporary literary fiction is meant to inhibit looking back and reflecting…

Apr 27 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

The Wanderer and the Way 21

Wicked Pagan Nonsense

Apr 26 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

Symbolism and the Moral Hazard of Literary Studies

There is an old jibe that I have not been able to trace to its source that says that in literature, a phallic symbol is anything that is longer than it…

Apr 22 •

G. M. (Mark) Baker

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