The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
From Amazon.com: Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book, The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bomb Vox saw his popularity mushroom. Baker's great gift is a precision [... more]
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Room Temperature
From Amazon.com: Nicholson Baker writes in 360-degree Sensurround--his descriptions of the seemingly banal awakening the most jaded of senses into recognition, admiration, and amusement. In Room Temperature, his self-deprecating, endlessly curious [... more]
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Checkpoint: A Novel
Author: Nicholson Baker Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781400079858 ISBN: 1400079853 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2005-04-12 Release Date: 2005-04-12 [... more]
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A Box of Matches
From Amazon.com: One man's simple, colloquial meditations on his past, his family, and his life's daily minutia are the substance of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches. Feeling that life is passing him by, Emmett, a middle-aged medical textbook editor, [... more]
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The Everlasting Story of Nory
From Amazon.com: Sex and the adult cerebellum have tended to be Nicholson Baker's cherished subjects, and not necessarily in that order. In The Everlasting Story of Nory, however, he turns his literary microscopy in an entirely new direction, exploring [... more]
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Newsprint crumbles: It's a fact. Blaming librarians for the process of papermaking is disingenuous at best. One wonders if Baker resents the fact that librarians buy his books so that many people can read them without having to pay him a royalty. Idea [... more]
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The Mezzanine
The Aesthetics of Material Technology, Right At Hand: Fortunately I didn't give up reading this-novel? before I grasped its true point. This let me enjoy its uniqueness. Surely not a novel. But no, not even "creative non-fiction." Instead, a [... more]
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The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive ...
Even classical music has gone politically correct!: I reviewed this book hoping to find a decent introductory overview of the history and basics of music. At the start, this text looked promising. It featured an accompanying interactive CD set with [... more]
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The World On Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's ...
Author: Nicholson Baker Author: Margaret Brentano Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 071.471 EAN: 9780821261934 Edition: 0 ISBN: 0821261932 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2005-09-29 [... more]
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