David Foster Wallace’s essays seem like the clearest precursor of “internet writing style”: note the italics for emphasis, the informality, the casual speech tone. This reads like a modern blog post.

Anthony Burgess and his family arrived in Malta, intending to begin a new life there, on 13 November 1968. They lived at 168 Main Street in Lija (pictured). The house was later confiscated by the Maltese government when Burgess spoke out against censorship.

New on the blog: Anthony Burgess and the question of literary censorship. anthonyburgessfoundation.sub…