Ernest Hemingway’s Twenty Nicknames and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen”: The Mystery of Why These Blog Posts Have Gotten the Most Visits.

For many months, my blog, “Novelists use Normal Version of Multiple Personality,” had been getting its most visits to the post on Doris Lessing’s short story, “To Room Nineteen,” which remains the second most visited post in the blog’s history. More recently, apart from new posts, the most visited post has been the one on Hemingway’s Twenty Nicknames, which is now, far and away, the most visited post in the blog’s history.

Both of these posts are from 2014. They are good posts, but not my best posts. And I can’t account for their popularity. Maybe it is not that these two posts are so popular, but that all my other posts are of interest to relatively few people.

The blog has modest numbers, but they come from around the world: more than fifty countries. In the last month, the most visits have come from China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Philippines, Ukraine, and the USA.