Nicholson Baker's Books
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House of HolesBestselling author of Vox and The Fermata returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts sex novelRead More
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The AnthologistFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Human Smoke, a brilliantly funny and deftly constructed new novelRead More -
Human SmokeA meticulously researched and revelatory perspective on the political, social, religious and economic events throughout the world in the years leadingRead More
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The Way the World WorksA treasure trove of original and provocative pieces about modern lifeRead More
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The Independent, May 12, 2012
...John Cage, Jean-Marie Straub and Engels. Just when the whole crazy footnote thing starts to remind you of Nicholson Baker, up he pops. Nicholas Royle's new novel, 'First Novel' (Jonathan Cape), will be published next year...
New York Times, May 4, 2012
...and cave painting; ChatRoulette and Derrida. Their godparents are not so much Joan Didion and Gay Talese as Nicholson Baker (Updike, Wikipedia), Geoff Dyer (Rodin, doughnuts) and David Foster Wallace (tennis, infinity). Even in such polymathic company,...
New York Times, May 4, 2012
...and cave painting; ChatRoulette and Derrida. Their godparents are not so much Joan Didion and Gay Talese as Nicholson Baker (Updike, Wikipedia), Geoff Dyer (Rodin, doughnuts) and David Foster Wallace (tennis, infinity). Even in such polymathic company,...
Yahoo! Finance, April 27, 2012
...of producing, powering, and discarding rapidly obsolescent portable devices and their batteries, with many toxic parts. Also, as Nicholson Baker has reminded us in Double Fold, even cheap acidic paper can have surprisingly long life, as anyone seeing...
Atlantic Monthly, April 27, 2012
...of producing, powering, and discarding rapidly obsolescent portable devices and their batteries, with many toxic parts. Also, as Nicholson Baker has reminded us in Double Fold , even cheap acidic paper can have surprisingly long life, as anyone seeing...
Associated Content, April 26, 2012
...to be of optimal use. No device or card quite equals that experience.Historical Authenticity - The novelist Nicholson Baker has led a campaign to preserve newspapers as historical artifacts because they recreate the experience a person had reading about...
New York Times, April 16, 2012
...nearly 40 years. McGrath’s most recent articles for the magazine were on Stephen Colbert and the novelist Nicholson Baker. What attracted you to Caro as a subject? Caro’s multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson is a huge project, and there is nothing...
Stranger, April 18, 2012
...a little digging at their local bookstore and find Anais Nin or Anne Rice or Henry Miller or Nicholson Baker or Catherine Millet or Terry Southern or Erica Jong. The thing I want everyone to know is: Sexy writing doesn't have to be terrible writing . ...
Creative Loafing, April 16, 2012
...It comes up frequently, and as a reader I do it, too. Theres a really interesting book by Nicholson Baker called U and I where he goes through his memories of John Updikes writing, and later compares his memories of a sentence with what the sentence...
New York Times, April 16, 2012
...nearly 40 years. McGrath’s most recent articles for the magazine were on Stephen Colbert and the novelist Nicholson Baker. What attracted you to Caro as a subject? Caro’s multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson is a huge project, and there is nothing...
New York Times, April 16, 2012
...nearly 40 years. McGrath’s most recent articles for the magazine were on Stephen Colbert and the novelist Nicholson Baker. What attracted you to Caro as a subject? Caro’s multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson is a huge project, and there is nothing...
TeleRead, April 16, 2012
...that they tend to favor the home team. I find it irritating, but it doesn’t really matter. Nicholson Baker’s writerly takedown of the Kindle in The New Yorker in 2009 didn’t slow the advance e-readers one pixel. And if The New York Times continues...
Scribd, April 12, 2012
...heart of fiction begins with wonder and questions, and his own novels and short stories prove it so. nICHolson BAKeR has earned a reputation – not always favorably – by writing a series of novels and novellas in the voice of boyishly obsessed,...
Newsvine, April 12, 2012
...This novel, Strange Flesh, is one of those books where you have no idea, as you start it, quite what you're getting into. When I was asked if I wanted to get the book and interview the author I blushed when I saw mentioned prominently the word...
