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  • A Box of Matches by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    A Box of Matches

    Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and...
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  • Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information ACT by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information ACT

    "Staggeringly good." --Counterpunch A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act--FOIA--and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Eight years ago, while investigating...
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  • Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information ACT by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information ACT

    "Staggeringly good." --Counterpunch A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act--FOIA--and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Eight years ago, while investigating...
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  • Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country's libraries-including the Library of Congress-have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult...
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  • Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art

    Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Literary Hub From the acclaimed and bestselling writer Nicholson Baker, a deeply personal account of his journey learning how to paint for the first time, and a meditation on the power of art in times of...
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  • House of Holes: A Book of Raunch by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    House of Holes: A Book of Raunch

    In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, "one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades" (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative,...
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  • Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

    Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy--a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to...
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  • Room Temperature by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Room Temperature

    Nicholson Baker's novel The Mezzanine turned a lunch hour into a postmodern version of The Odyssey. In Room Temperature, originally published by Grove Press in 1984, Baker takes the reader an even greater distance in the course of twenty minutes, although his narrator is...
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  • The Everlasting Story of Nory by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    The Everlasting Story of Nory

    Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling stories...
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  • The Fermata by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    The Fermata

    Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling".--San Francisco Chronicle.Author: Nicholson BakerISBN-10: 0679759336ISBN-13:...
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  • The Mezzanine by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    The Mezzanine

    In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novel--first published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback--the author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From...
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  • The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist

    TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER'S BRILLIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDER A New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist introduces his quirkiest and most unforgettable protagonist yet, the "erudite, unpretentious, and...
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  • The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber

    The bestselling author of Vox and The Fermata devotes his hyperdriven curiosity and magnificently baroque prose to the fossils of punctuation and the lexicography of smut, delivering to readers a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience.Author: Nicholson BakerISBN-10:...
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  • The Way the World Works: Essays by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    The Way the World Works

    New York Times bestselling author Nicholson Baker has assembled a "provocative and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) collection of his most original and brilliant pieces from the last fifteen years.From political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism...
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  • Vox by Baker, Nicholson
    Nicholson Baker

    Vox

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER Vox is a novel that remaps the territory of sex--sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.Author: Nicholson BakerISBN-10: 0679742115ISBN-13: 9780679742111Publisher: Knopf...
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