Junot Diaz Does His Best Writing in the Bathroom Nov 19, 2009
Nicholson Baker, quasi-conscious writing in the dark. Most days, Nicholson Baker rises at 4 a.m. to write at his home in South Berwick, Maine. (Slate)
iRex pitches 8-inch screen as ideal for periodicals Nov 16, 2009
E-Readers I m with those critics of the screen in the 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 Kindle s display technology, appears to be the only player in town when it comes to reflective screens. (Boston Globe)
The Audio Book Club on Nicholson Baker Oct 20, 2009
To listen to the Slate Audio Book Club discussion of Nicholson Baker's , click the arrow on the player below ... This month, the Audio Book Club tackles Nicholson Baker's new novel, The Anthologist. (Slate)
Hilton Als: Horton Foote’s three acts. Oct 19, 2009
Now reading The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker. 00004000. (New Yorker)
Alex Ross: Alan Gilbert takes over at the New York Philharmonic. Oct 13, 2009
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Naughty Boys Oct 12, 2009
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If Obama is a dictator, how must he be stopped? Oct 1, 2009
For the more literary Bush-hater, there is Checkpoint, a novel by Nicholson Baker in which two characters discuss the wisdom of shooting the president. I m going to kill that bastard, one character fumes. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Nicholson Baker's 'Anthologist' to be featured at RiverRun Sep 21, 2009
" (he says it can't); and what he looks for in a book signing.Fans of the New York Times bestselling author won't have to wait for the audio book recorded in part by local sound engineer and musician Marc McElroy to hear the author read. He'll hold a reading and signing of his novel Thursday at RiverRun Bookstore.Locals who read "The Anthologist" will find a few familiar names dropped in among the poetry terminology, since the setting is Portsmouth."Portsmouth is a great poetry town," said... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Author readings and signs in Greater Boston, Sept. 20-26 Sep 20, 2009
Nicholson Baker reads from The Anthologist, 7 p.m., Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. (Boston Globe)
Readings and Signings Sep 18, 2009
" Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m.: Nicholson Baker reads from his latest novel, "The Anthologist" (a book that mentions RiverRun Bookstore). "The Anthologist" is narrated by Paul Chowder a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Fall feast for fiction lovers Sep 13, 2009
Lorrie Moore, Nicholson Baker, Dan Brown, and Nick Hornby have titles out this month ... Authors releasing books this month include Lorrie Moore, William Trevor, Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Tyler. (Boston Globe)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by Nicholson Baker (Simon ter). The author's latest novel, told from the point of view of the failed (but very funny) poet Paul Chowder. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Nicholson Baker’s ‘The Anthologist’ offers antic polemic on reasons for rhyme Sep 6, 2009
Nicholson Baker s The Anthologist offers antic polemic on reasons for rhyme - The Boston Globe ... The irrepressible protagonist of Nicholson Baker s new novel, Paul Chowder, puts it like this at one point: You know what ... The happiest felicity in a book full of them is that such a loving and superbly witty homage to poetry - and to life - could have been achieved only through the prose sentences of Nicholson Baker. (Boston Globe)
61 postmodern reads Jul 25, 2009
Postmodern books have a reputation for being massive tomes, like David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest" -- but then there's "The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker, which has just 144 pages ... Kathy Acker's "In Memorium to Identity" Donald Antrim's "The Hundred Brothers" Margaret Atwood's "The Blind Assassin" Paul Auster's New York Trilogy Nicholson Baker's "The Mezzanine" J.G. Ballard's "The Atrocity Exhibition" John Barth's "Giles Goat-Boy" Donald Barthelme's "60 Stories" John Berger's "G" Thomas... (Harper's Magazine)
Writers pay tribute to John Updike May 31, 2009
In addition to Nicholson Baker, who wrote about his Updike obsession in "U and I," speakers will include radio personality Christopher Lydon, novelist Anne Bernays, Amherst College professor William Pritchard, and Charles McGrath, former editor of The New York Times Book Review. Reservations are recommended. (Boston Globe)
Missing John Updike May 26, 2009
I once bearded him at a reception and asked for his reaction to "U and I," an oddball meditation on Updike by Nicholson Baker. "The thing that mattered most," Updike said, "was that Baker didn't use up any of my time." Updike appreciated, as I then did not, that time is, really, our only possession worth husbanding. (Boston Globe)
Nicholas Lemann: What media moguls make. Apr 14, 2009
Paper Tigers: Books: The New Yorker. The Wall Street Journal and the Invention of Modern Journalism (St. (New Yorker)
Paper Tigers Apr 6, 2009
The Wall Street Journal and the Invention of Modern Journalism (St. 95), Richard J. Tofel, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch (Broadway; 29. (New Yorker)
