Nicholson Baker's Books
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The AnthologistThe Anthologist, narrated by poet Paul Chowder, captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose style that have made Baker an American master.Read More
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Human SmokeBestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of...Read More
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Boston Globe, November 16, 2009
...E-Readers Im with those critics of the screen in the Amazon Kindle, which Nicholson Baker, writing for the New Yorker in August, described as a greenish, sickly gray. But Cambridge-based E Ink, which developed the Kindles display technology, appears to...
Boston Globe, November 16, 2009
...E-Readers Im with those critics of the screen in the Amazon Kindle, which Nicholson Baker, writing for the New Yorker in August, described as a greenish, sickly gray. But Cambridge-based E Ink, which developed the Kindles display technology, appears to...
Boston Globe, November 16, 2009
...E-Readers Im with those critics of the screen in the Amazon Kindle, which Nicholson Baker, writing for the New Yorker in August, described as a greenish, sickly gray. But Cambridge-based E Ink, which developed the Kindles display technology, appears to...
Washington Post, October 31, 2009
...another aspect of publishing: the loss of old newspapers in their physical form, a state of affairs that Nicholson Baker has also lamented. Both writers are incensed by the way in which some libraries toss out archived newspapers (and many other items)...
Washington Post, October 31, 2009
...another aspect of publishing: the loss of old newspapers in their physical form, a state of affairs that Nicholson Baker has also lamented. Both writers are incensed by the way in which some libraries toss out archived newspapers (and many other items)...
National Post, October 23, 2009
..., the latest novel by American writer Nicholson Baker, asks a big question: After centuries of writing sonnets and lyric poetry, why have today's poets shunned anything that even resembles musicality? Why do they hate rhyme? It...
Toronto Star Online, October 23, 2009
...the creative process. U.K. author Iain Pears, right, whose new book is Stone's Fall, reads with Nicholson Baker, Kyle Buckley and Kathy Reichs, tonight at 8 at Harbourfront Centre's Fleck Dance Theatre. How do you get started writing? Guilt is the best...
National Post, October 23, 2009
...In Friday's National Post Ron Nurwisah chats with Nicholson Baker about the novelist's latest book, The Anthologist. Previous IFOA XXX authors of the day: • •...
Slate Magazine, October 19, 2009
...To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, click the arrow on the player below. You can also download the audio file here, or click here to subscribe to the Slate Audio Book Club...
Slate Magazine, October 19, 2009
...To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, click the arrow on the player below. You can also download the audio file here, or click Get your 14-day free trial of Audio Book Club...
Globe and Mail, October 9, 2009
...Anthologist such a page-turner. It's Baker's fabulous gift in parsing a thought entertainingly. The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker, Simon & Shuster, 256 pages, $32.99 The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker, Simon & Shuster, 256 pages, $32.99 Baker's first...
Penn State Daily Collegian, October 2, 2009
...Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, a prose novel about poetry, contains a whimsical voice all its own but falls short in its plot. The novel is narrated by Paul Chowder, a...
Telegraph, September 29, 2009
...poetry anthology ever. I like Paul Chowder. He isnt real. Hes the narrator of a new novel by Nicholson Baker. Baker is an experimental novelist one of his works is entirely a record of phone sex and although The Anthologist is experimental too, it does...
Boston Globe, September 27, 2009
...Mass. Ave., Cambridge. WEDNESDAY: Nick Hornby reads from Juliet, Naked, 6 p.m., Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline ($5) . . . Nicholson Baker discusses The Anthologist, 7 p.m., Borders Back Bay, 511 Boylston St. . . . Margot Livesey reads from House on...
Portsmouth Herald, September 21, 2009
...And most recently of World War II ('Human Smoke' in 2008). But now, South Berwick, Maine's own Nicholson Baker has taken on an even more weighty issue in his new release by Simon and Schuster the anxious mind of a poet. The narrator of 'The Anthologist'...
Boston Globe, September 20, 2009
...St. MONDAY: Joyce Maynard reads from Labor Day, 7 p.m., Porter Square Books, 25 White St., Cambridge . . . Nicholson Baker reads from The Anthologist, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. TUESDAY: Anita Shreve reads from A Change in...
Slate Magazine, September 17, 2009
...instead of the third Thursday of every month. (Sorry for the change up!) Our selection for October is Nicholson Baker's 10th novel, The Anthologist. Look for our discussion of The Anthologist on iTunes or on the Slate homepage on Monday, Oct. 19. You can...
San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2009
...it? see Site Index News» Today Sections Sports» More Features Food» Travel» Living» Entertainment» Classifieds» 'The Anthologist,' by Nicholson Baker Stephen Burt, Special to The Chronicle Print E-mail del.icio.us Digg Technorati Reddit Facebook...
The Independent, September 10, 2009
...Paul Chowder, poet-narrator of Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist, writes (when he does write) free verse. The sample he gives, in which he watches the bottom of his now estranged girlfriend Roz ascending the stairs...
Seattle Times, September 7, 2009
...The Anthologist by Nicholas Baker Simon & Schuster, 256 pp., $25 In the brisk and entertaining 'The Anthologist,' Nicholson Baker tackles what might seem a daunting task. He writes a completely successful novel about poetry. His protagonist, 55-year-old...
Buffalo News, September 6, 2009
...a venerable American poet named John Shade and his mad-as-a-hatter annotater Charles Kinbote, the royal fantasist of Zembla? Nicholson Baker?s ?The Anthologist? turns ?Pale Fire? upside down for a new century. Nabokov?s masterwork was a...
New York Times, September 3, 2009
...Nicholson Baker?s new novel, ?The Anthologist? (which David Orr reviews in this Sunday?s Book Review), contains a funny little badminton scene ? the narrator tries to join his neighbors in a game, but his dog races back and forth under the net,...
Washington Post, September 1, 2009
...THE ANTHOLOGIST By Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster. 243 pp. $25 Poet Paul Chowder, the narrator of Nicholson Baker's 'The Anthologist,' has a vision of himself on a ladder: Above him are such...
Erie Times-News, August 30, 2009
...s list them in alphabetical order, so we don't get overwhelmed. Sherman Alexie, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Nicholson Baker, Madison Smartt Bell, Dan Brown, Robert Olen Butler, A.S. Byatt, Philip Caputo, Michael Chabon, Pat Conroy -- his first novel in...
Guardian Unlimited, August 28, 2009
...misquotations from Vachel Lindsay and petulant abuse of Ezra Pound,' Tom Deveson said in the Sunday Times, reviewing Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist. 'Baker's book is parasitic on the work of better writers. It makes more sense to abandon it and go off...
Spectator, August 27, 2009
...On the face of it, Nicholson Baker?s books are a varied bunch. His fiction ranges from the ultra close-up observations of daily life in the early novels to the hard-core sex of Fermata and Vox...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, August 25, 2009
...fans of her thoroughly researched and so well written historical fiction. I'm a huge of fan of Nicholson Baker, so if you love his books, you'll love The Anthologist (on sale September 8), a quiet little treasure about a poet who has committed to writing...
Glasgow Herald, August 24, 2009
...NICHOLSON BAKER: grew an Old Testament-length beard, the remains of which still clung to his chin, in his attempt to step into the skin of the hero of his latest novel...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 23, 2009
...s list them in alphabetical order, so we don't get overwhelmed. Sherman Alexie, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Nicholson Baker, Madison Smartt Bell, Dan Brown, Robert Olen Butler, A.S. Byatt, Philip Caputo, Michael Chabon, Pat Conroy -- his first novel in...
Blogcritics.org, August 21, 2009
...An irresistible book comes along every so often. I do not intend to read it. I didn't ask for it. I'm busy reading other books that I requested or agreed to receive. Still, I can't resist holding this new one a moment longer. Is it the title, the picture...
Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2009
...by James McBride Nonfiction "Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization" by Nicholson Baker "Dust From Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa" by Joan Baxter "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas L. Friedman ...
New York Times, August 18, 2009
...McBride. The nonfiction finalists are ?Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization? by Nicholson Baker; ?Dust from our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa? by Joan Baxter; ?Hot, Flat and Crowded? by Thomas Friedman, a columnist...
The Scotsman, August 15, 2009
...HELLO, this is Paul Chowder, and I'm going to try to tell you everything I know' begins Nicholson Baker's anthologist, a 'once-in-a-while-published kind of poet' labouring over the introduction to a new poetry anthology. His girlfriend Roz left him,...
Guardian Unlimited, August 14, 2009
...Andrew Motion detects a whiff of self-parody in Nicholson Baker's distracted poet Nicholson Baker has a complicated relationship with narrative. In his last book, the non-fiction Human Smoke, he simplified the lines of history to present Winston Churchill...
Paste Magazine, August 14, 2009
...Hometown: Hudson, N.Y.Book: The Unnamed (January 2010)For Fans Of: Ethan Canin, Nicholson Baker, The Office Before publishing his stylish 2007 debut novel, Then We Came To The End, Ferris taught English in Japan, did paralegal work in Florida and wrote...
Tidbits, August 4, 2009
...photos of the new devices too early by accident. For a thoughtful look from a paper-book worshipper, read Nicholson Baker's New York article, 'A New Page.' Baker is a meticulous fiction writer, and the author of a surprisingly prescient book on the way...
New Yorker, August 4, 2009
...Last week, many of you gamely tuned in to participate in a live chat with Nicholson Baker about the Kindle. Which is why I?m pleased to announce that this Wednesday, Judith Thurman will be sitting down at 3 P.M. ET to chat with readers...
Guardian Unlimited, July 31, 2009
... Nicholson Baker ? except perhaps a bit friendlier Damien G Walter Gandalf and Dumbledore may have legions of fans behind them, but the time has come to decide who wields...
Guardian Unlimited, July 31, 2009
... Nicholson Baker ? except perhaps a bit friendlier Damien G Walter Gandalf and Dumbledore may have legions of fans behind them, but the time has come to decide who wields...
Examiner.com, July 31, 2009
...bad--nothing ever is. Anne Applebaum's article is mainly a review of a book called Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker. This book is supposed to be a pacifist reexamination of America's involvement in World War II. Applebaum, who proves herself to be a very...
Addict3d.org, July 30, 2009
...Kindle (Hugh D'Andrade, eff.org/deeplinks) Previously:Bezos apologizes for Kindle 1984 memory hole blunder - Boing Boing Nicholson Baker on the Kindle - Boing Boing Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can .. Jeff Bezos's Kindle...
Toledoblade.com, June 28, 2009
...a novel about two women friends, both facing crises, albeit of different kinds. (Out now) The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker. An unknown poet struggles to put an anthology together while sustaining an increasingly desperate stream-of-consciousness...
Toronto Star Online, June 22, 2009
...Miriam Toews, Linwood Barclay and singer Anne Murray, who is publishing a memoir, along with John Irving and Nicholson Baker, Paul Theroux and Sarah Waters. Tickets are on sale now for the Munro event, along with readings by shortlisted authors for the...
Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2009
...Viral Culture' by Bill Wasik, and anyone, celebrity status notwithstanding, can read along and comment too. Works by Nicholson Baker, Alexander Pope, Italo Calvino, Tom Bissell and many others were left out for intrepid garbage fairy Garth Risk Halberg...
Centre Daily Times, June 8, 2009
...save space. On this last topic, Manguel?s urbanity and generosity desert him. Citing the work of novelist Nicholson Baker, especially his tract ?Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper? (2001), Manguel is critical of libraries that replaced...
Press-Telegram, June 1, 2009
...October, Little, Brown). 'The Anthologist' (September, Simon & Schuster), ruminations on poetry by the always innovative and information Nicholson Baker. Pat Conroy ('The Prince of Tides') returns to fiction writing after a long layoff with a Charleston...
Christian Science Monitor, June 1, 2009
...and Summer,? by William Trevor ? ?The Year of the Flood,? by Margaret Atwood ? ?The Anthologist,? by Nicholson Baker ? ?Dawn Light,? by Diane Ackerman ? ?Level 26,? by Anthony E. Zuiker ? ?Stitches,? by David Small ?...
PublishersWeekly.com, May 31, 2009
...authors jumped forward just when the publishing industry needed them. Theres also Paul Auster [Invisible, Holt, Oct.], Nicholson Baker [The Anthologist, Simon & Schuster, Sept.], Jeannette Walls [Half-Broke Horses, Scribner, Oct.] and Barbara Kingsolver...
New York Times, May 2, 2009
...teenage prodigy Updike was mad about Doris Day, and on his deathbed he still is. Philip Roth and Nicholson Baker would acknowledge the tone in which he addresses her shade: Give me space to get over the idea of you The phrase gigantic silver screen is...
New York Times, April 24, 2009
...I was trying to think if there was a college nearby and if maybe he was a professor. Nicholson Baker, who writes fiction and nonfiction books, feels much the same way, even though he defines himself by the contents of his (physical) library. Years ago,...
The Free Lance-Star, April 3, 2009
...One book that is not on the banned list yet but should be soon is 'Human Smoke' by Nicholson Baker. Baker tells the truth about World War II in an interesting way. What is it about refugees that they must bring their social, intellectual, and religious...
Guardian Unlimited, March 30, 2009
...things, an intriguing strategy for office politics. Bartleby may be the precursor of 'office' fiction that culminates in Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine, and Joshua Ferris's Until We Came To the End. 3. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels. You probably...
New Yorker, March 28, 2009
...can only find things to worry about to your right.? There?s plenty of criticism of Klein, Moore, Nicholson Baker, and other paranoid stylists of the left in my book on Iraq, ?The Assassins? Gate.? I didn?t mention them in discussing...
Guardian Unlimited, March 5, 2009
...tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who spends a year in an English cathedral town? Douglas Coupland Nicholson Baker Armistead Maupin John Irving larger | smaller Email Recipient's email address Your first name Your surname Add a note (optional) Your...
STLtoday.com, February 2, 2009
...florid vocabulary. For years, I mentally composed the fan letter I wanted to send him ? until novelist Nicholson Baker wrote him a lovely valentine, in book form, titled 'U and I.' In 50 years, Updike published more than 60 books. I stopped relating to...
MSNBC Newsweek, January 31, 2009
...while.' In addition to the books, and to his literary influence on writers as diverse as Richard Ford, Nicholson Baker (whose 1991 book 'U and I' is a homage to Updike) and Lorrie Moore, his generosity as a senior statesman of letters?as a critic, a...
The Age, January 30, 2009
...a book, Reading the OED, that fellow word freaks (not quite so dedicated) seem to like a lot. Nicholson Baker put it quite poetically in his New York Times review: 'Shea has walked the wildwood of our gnarled, ancient speech and returned singing...
New Yorker, January 29, 2009
...of my head, the visionary babble of life and art conversing and converging. 2. ?U and I,? by Nicholson Baker, the most sublime gesture I can possibly imagine from one living writer to another, and one of my permanent favorite books. It seems...
STLtoday.com, January 28, 2009
...mimicked his florid vocabulary. For years, I mentally composed the fan letter I wanted to send him, until Nicholson Baker sent him a valentine in book form, in a ruminative essay called ?U and I.? I stopped reading Updike?s books when I got to the...
Guardian Unlimited, January 27, 2009
...who looms so large that we're doomed to live in his shadow. The best book on Updike, Nicholson Baker's U&I, deals precisely with the difficulty of finding your own distinctive voice when you know that Updike is already there before you, more eloquent in...
WPEC NEWS 12, January 27, 2009
...essay about Ted Williams' final game, 'Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.' He was hailed by his fellow author Nicholson Baker in 'U and I' and even appeared as an animated version of himself on a 'Simpsons' episode as the ghostwriter of a Krusty the Klown book....
Guardian Unlimited, January 27, 2009
...Rabbit is Rich Nabokov is a stylistic inspiration; he greatly admires Saul Bellow. Richard Ford's Independence Day; Nicholson Baker's bizarre homage to Updike, U Philip Roth. The Witches of Eastwick (1987), with Jack Nicholson as the devil, Cher, Susan...
Bradley Scout, January 27, 2009
...essay about Ted Williams' final game, 'Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.' He was hailed by his fellow author Nicholson Baker in 'U and I' and even appeared as an animated version of himself on a 'Simpsons' episode as the ghostwriter of a Krusty the Klown book....
Las Vegas Review Journal, January 22, 2009
...recommendations: 'Winter's Tale' by Mark Helprin ('I've read that a couple of times'); 'The Mezzanine' by Nicholson Baker ('I read all his books; I'm a big fan of his'); Raymond Chandler's private eye novels ('I've read a bunch over and over again'); and...
Guardian Unlimited, January 20, 2009
...does here: the intimacies, the rewards, the rivalries and the shockingly casual cruelty of little girls. Chris Ross Nicholson Baker: Room Temperature (1990) Baker's first novel, Mezzanine, turned a lunch hour into a miniature contemplative epic, and Room...
Boston Phoenix, January 15, 2009
...even though President George W. Bush was genuinely despised by a healthy segment of the populace â?? author Nicholson Baker was still free to write and publish Checkpoint, a novel in which two men debate taking Bush's life. And two years later, the...
Christian Science Monitor, December 14, 2008
...are old, musty, and seldom used. T his is the same trend so vividly and disturbingly chronicled by Nicholson Baker in Double Fold,, and Basbanes, like Baker, is appalled by it. Basbanes focuses on the controversy surrounding San Franciscos New Main...
Modesto Bee, December 4, 2008
...books that try to chart the confusing, exciting and intoxicating relationships readers have with a favorite writer are Nicholson Baker's 'U & I,' an idiosyncratic tribute to John Updike, and Geoff Dwyer's 'Out of Sheer Rage,' a perverse account of the...
New York Times, November 28, 2008
...JOHNSON 8 JOYCE CAROL OATES 7 SPORTS 7 TONI MORRISON 6 DAVID FOSTER WALLACE 6 MARTIN AMIS 6 NICHOLSON BAKER 6 IAN MCEWAN 6 GEORGE ORWELL 5 JONATHAN FRANZEN 5 ANNE ENRIGHT 5 JAMES WOOD 5 GEORGE PLIMPTON 5 VLADIMIR NABOKOV 5 SALMAN RUSHDIE 5 GEORGE...
The Afterword, October 23, 2009
...In Friday's National Post Ron Nurwisah chats with Nicholson Baker about the novelist's latest book, The Anthologist. Click here to read the story. Previous IFOA XXX authors of the day:• Ron Nurwisah on David Byrne• Mike Doherty...
STEVENHARTSITE, October 20, 2009
...on the pitfalls of publishing yourself . Don’t believe in writer’s block? Don’t tell that to Nicholson Baker . Discussing (and, one hopes, dispelling) myths about Nietzsche . A talk on the difference between plot-driven and character-driven...
Token Attempt, October 15, 2009
...were a neurological necessity, like sleep... [They] allowed her to organize social sense experience." -The Fermata, by Nicholson Baker...
The Boston Bibliophile, October 9, 2009
...psychoanalyst. I had two little bookstore shopping sprees last week- one to Porter Square Books , where I bought Nicholson Baker's new book, The Anthologist , and 2009's The Best American Nonrequired Reading . I've been a Nicholson Baker fan for years...
Literary License (short reviews, real opinions), October 5, 2009
...process of construction that counts, not the finished product. Scott then applies Shklovsky's concept of defamiliarization to Nicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine , praising Baker's "great ability to defamiliarize those things that most of us probably...
Blogs, October 4, 2009
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mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, October 1, 2009
...Career Coma ! Yesterday we debated if American poetry had a common readership. Over at Poetry Foundation , novelist Nicholson Baker stokes another a poetry debate about " the new free-verse orthodoxy ."...
HAUTE*NATURE, September 30, 2009
...since 2002. The idea occurred to him years earlier after reading an essay, "Books As Furniture," by Nicholson Baker. Given his background as the son and grandson of publishers, he assumed the reaction, should he make such a thing, would be furious. The...
Conversational Reading, September 28, 2009
...that right-hand column is organized with regard to color. The only one not pictured is The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker , reason being that I'm already reading it. This is my first Baker, and now I realize I should have started sooner...
Steve Goddard's History Wire, September 28, 2009
...The Anthologist -- A Novel by Nicholson Baker, Simon & Schuster '09, $25, 243 pages, ISBN #1416572449. It's safe to say that Nicholson Baker is an acquired taste. So if you're convinced you don't...
Sense and Nonsense, September 27, 2009
...walk -- your pathetic, pampered ass (see post below) to your local bookseller to buy a copy of Nicholson Baker's new novel, The Anthologist . Baker (pictured at right) is one of the best writers in America. I've loved much of his earlier work. But...
Poetry & Poets in Rags, September 15, 2009
...whose eighth novel, The Anthologist, a rich musing on the world of poetry, was released Tuesday, is on the phone from his home in South Berwick, Maine, a town of 7,000 on the New Hampshire line. "I'm hoping that people will come away from the book and...
The Best American Poetry, September 10, 2009
...Advance word has it the narrator of Nicholson Baker's new novel The Anthologist has some pretty interesting things to say about The Oxford Book of American Poetry (ed. Lehman, 20006) and its two predecessors, The Oxford Book of American Verse, edited...
Poetry & Poets in Rags, September 8, 2009
...his protagonist's occupation in order to concentrate on the perilous effects of buried alien spacecraft. Yet somehow Nicholson Baker has written a novel about poetry that's actually about poetry--and that is also startlingly perceptive and ardent, both...
sonnets at 4 a.m., September 5, 2009
..."Yet somehow Nicholson Baker has written a novel about poetry that’s actually about poetry — and that is also startlingly perceptive and ardent, both as a work of fiction and as a...
The Best American Poetry, August 24, 2009
...It won't be published for another week or so, but may I enthusiastically recommend Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist , a new novel about a poet who has writer's block composing the introduction to a poetry anthology....
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, August 17, 2009
...one novel would you assign to a student who might never read another ? • James Marcus on Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year . • Bookride is on an interesting run about the cultural differences between anglophone and French...
Emdashes, August 13, 2009
...Read Nicholson's Baker "report":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker on the Kindle -does it make the book obsolete or is it a new source of annoyance and eye-strain in America? Click on the cartoon to enlarge it! Read "The...
Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women, August 9, 2009
...s got a 5-inch screen and is bargain-priced at $199. See also the recent New Yorker piece by Nicholson Baker about his Kindle experiences. Warts and all...
Insomniactive, July 31, 2009
...much logic. The “value prop” of the Kindle is bullet proof in a hundred ways. But Nicholson Baker, in crabby, rambling piece in the New Yorker, comes closer to explaining why than I ever could...
The Kindle Chronicles, July 31, 2009
...to what improvements may lie ahead for the Kindle, gleaned from an online Amazon survey. Item 3: Nicholson Baker pens a mainly unfavorable review of the Kindle in this week’s edition of The New Yorker . Click here for his five books at the Kindle...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, July 31, 2009
...Nicholson Baker sounds approximately the same in a webchat as in an essay – except perhaps a bit friendlier. • John Self on the merits – greater than expected – of...
... susan 's MySpace Blog, June 5, 2009
...Shakespeare or Jane Austen. and Leaves of Grass. 32) And ... what are you reading right now? VOX by Nicholson Baker (which I finished last night) The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol On Writing - Stephen King ... the TBR pile calls... Pale Fire in...
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits, June 3, 2009
...it might devour some of the smaller books as snacks. (To give you some sense of the problem, Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist and Richard Powers’s Generosity are 50 cent bags of Doritos by comparison. Is this really fair?) But you can’t just...
Exile on Ninth Street, May 20, 2009
...Nicholson Baker’s Vox (Vintage Contemporaries, 1993) made me want to cook. I finished reading the novel and felt the urge, the desire, the need to do something physical, something with...
The Glass Hombre, May 3, 2009
...I've ever had the displeasure to read. What's that cliched phrase? "Get a life, Mr Powell." Nicholson Baker - Human Smoke : Baker's a weird creature. Of his novels, The Mezzanine , Room Temperature , Vox, & Box of Matches are all brilliantly written,...
bookofjoe, May 1, 2009
...he's touched on since, whether fiction or not , sparkles from a dusting of his magic . Then comes Nicholson Baker , whose " The Mezzanine " dazzled me then and confounds me still when I try to figure out how he did it . May 1, 2009 at 12:01 PM...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue, April 26, 2009
...of the book, which evokes her abiding passion for books as objects. I would think it was paradoxical. Nicholson Baker, who writes fiction and nonfiction books, feels much the same way, even though he defines himself by the contents of his (physical)...
Telegraph Books, April 15, 2009
...of raccoon was “rahaughcum”, in the writings of a man saved from execution by Pocahontas? Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker Pocket, £9.99 Human Smoke is nothing if not ambitious. Nicholson Baker, an enfant terrible of American letters, has created a ry...
, April 6, 2009
...hard and long they tried. [Here's where I say something about the scene in 'The Fermata' by Nicholson Baker, the scene where the guy records the erotic story for the woman on the highway and installs it in her car so she can listen and be primed for...
Felicia C. Sullivan, March 12, 2009
...the Second World War, I hope you enjoy these wonderful titles. More about the books! Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker : Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker’s history of the first years of the Second World War, is an unabashedly quixotic book. It is even more...
Literary Kicks, March 5, 2009
...and a maniacal sadist. That’s fine, but I’ve already read dozens of books about the Holocaust (Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke was, for me, the most important recent work, William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich the most essential...
Works and Days, February 7, 2009
...General Betray US/”suspension of disbelief” Petraeus plan? Will there a Hollywood movie Rendition II ? Or a Nicholson Baker Knopf sequel to Checkpoint ? Stimuli I think we are ignoring three things about the stimulus package. First, the soaring...
Supermarket cashier's Blog, January 28, 2009
...Updike long ago became a monument on the literary scene, so much so that in 1991 the novelist Nicholson Baker could devote an entire book to his fascination with him, “U and I.” Yet what seemed monumental and effortless to readers didn’t...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...the Museum by Kate Atkinson Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Epileptic by David B Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac The Crow Road by Iain Banks The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks Fun...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...the Museum by Kate Atkinson Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Epileptic by David B Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac The Crow Road by Iain Banks The L Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks Fun...
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits, January 22, 2009
...was the key term on Tanenhaus’s mind. And I pointed out that Leon Wieseltier’s review of Nicholson Baker’s Checkpoint was just as ad hominem as anything I had ever written in calling Baker’s novel “a scummy little book.” Ah, Tanenhaus...
Works and Days, January 9, 2009
...Madrid or Paris with a suicide vest on. Write a novel about Bush deserving to die, as did Nicholson Baker, and you win a Knopf contract; write one about the Prophet as did Salman Rushdie and you go into hiding for a decade. Fear is about all I can...
Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communica, January 8, 2009
...Charms of Wikipedia " from the March 20, 2008, edition of The New York Review of Books by Nicholson Baker , has one paragraph that truly defines this new culture of sharing and information in a digital age: " Without the kooks and the insulters and the...
Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits, January 7, 2009
...Recognitions that still sits on my stacks. It was at Stacey’s where I first purchased books by Nicholson Baker and David Markson. It was at Stacey’s where I saw Douglas Adams read from Starship Titanic , among many other authors. My employers at the...
Ask MetaFilter, December 27, 2008
...Can anyone recommend any funny novels about government and politics? I just got done reading The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker, a witty, funny, and light-hearted short novel about the life of a modern day office worker. I thought the concept was pretty...
Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communica, December 26, 2008
...Wikipedia from Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008 of The New York Review of Books by Nicholson Baker . The article is actually a book review of Wikipedia - The Missing Manual by John Broughton ( Pogue Press / O'Reilly ). "More people use Wikipedia...
Anorak News, December 16, 2008
...British) Composer 19 15= Damian Hirst (British) Artist 19 15= Daniel Tammet (British) Savant & Linguist 19 18 Nicholson Baker (American Writer 18 19 Daniel Barenboim (N/A) Musician 17 20= Robert Crumb (American) Artist 16 20= Richard Dawkins (British)...
The Millions, December 9, 2008
...of what it means to live in our time. One essay forgotten in the Human Smoke controversy was Nicholson Baker's " The Charms of Wikipedia ," in which The New York Review of Books's stodgy tone was momentarily disrupted by an all-too-brief flicker of...
Cultural Snow, December 7, 2008
...I've been reading The Fermata , by Nicholson Baker. I think I've read most of Baker's fiction over the years, but for some reason this had slid between the cracks; a phrase that seems fairly appropriate...
reading is my superpower, November 21, 2008
...to Biff,Christ’s Childhood Pal Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine Chuck Palahniuk.- Choke I have read Ella Minnow Pea , Choke , and some other Vonnegut. Have heard great things about Moore...
