Sunday, September 18, 2005

Michael Bywater

Bee Docs' Timeline - Featured Users I came across this interview via a link on John Naughton's blog. MB is one of the few reasons why a paid up liberal softie like moi would desert the Grauniad for the Indy, and this is a fascinating account of someone who straddles academia and journalism successfully. Not many do - John Sutherland is the only other in the field of Literature who springs to mind. Bywater makes a point that has occurred to me - that classicists have made much more of the web than modern literature folk. I'm not sure why that should be, but I do think there's a lot of possibilities yet to be exploited by those of us in the field of modern and contemporary literature.

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