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Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Maine with his family.

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Globe and Mail, February 10, 2012
...it would be tempting, but a great shared read with someone you love. Pat, Toronto The Fermata by Nicholson Baker is an extraordinarily imaginative and sexy tale of a man who can stop time and create scenes that press every button. Dave, Vancouver The...
MetroTimes.com, February 8, 2012
...Baker's sexcapade is raucous, raunchy ... and somehow quaint House of Holes Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, $25 hardcover, $15 paperback (released this week), 352 pp.  We are awash in raunch, or at least it sometimes seems like it these days. Even...
WA Today, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first ? [It] will...
WA Today, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first … [It] will...
WA Today, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first ? [It] will...
Daily Beast, January 21, 2012
...men who received two reviews plus a profile were David Foster Wallace, Albert Brooks, Julian Barnes, Kevin Wilson, Nicholson Baker, Tom Perrotta, Russell Banks, Jeffrey Eugenides, Haruki Murakami and Allan Hollinghurst. The only woman who received...
San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2011
...Tartar woman who lives with her husband and daughter in the former Soviet Union. House of Holes, by Nicholson Baker (Simon & Schuster; $25). If Lewis Carroll and Kurt Vonnegut had collaborated on a dirty book, it might read something like this. Almost...
Globe and Mail, February 10, 2012
...it would be tempting, but a great shared read with someone you love. Pat, Toronto The Fermata by Nicholson Baker is an extraordinarily imaginative and sexy tale of a man who can stop time and create scenes that press every button. Dave, Vancouver The...
MetroTimes.com, February 8, 2012
...Baker's sexcapade is raucous, raunchy ... and somehow quaint House of Holes Nicholson Baker Simon & Schuster, $25 hardcover, $15 paperback (released this week), 352 pp.  We are awash in raunch, or at least it sometimes seems like it these days. Even...
MetroTimes.com, February 8, 2012
...Leather). Meanwhile, freelance writer Nicole Rupersburg shares her experience as a Dirty Show nude model, Lee Gardner reviews Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes, and former Detroiter Molly Mounds surveys the, er, ins and outs of scary sex toys. Photos by...
WA Today, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first ? [It] will...
WA Today, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first … [It] will...
WA Today, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first ? [It] will...
Sydney Morning Herald, February 1, 2012
...lit and straight-up smut. According to enthusiastic reviewer Elaine Blair in the August New York Review of Books, Nicholson Baker's surreally explicit new title, House of Holes, is ''exactly the sort of filth you'd want them to read first ? [It] will...