Nicholson Baker
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. Nearly every morning, he awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to a nearby school. When he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. In Baker's hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew -- mundane...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Baker's second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the "OED," and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. He writes about kite string and about the moment he met his wife, and he...
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Language
English
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A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe).
In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals....
In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
20240402
Language
English
Description
"Nicholson Baker's journey into the craft of painting before and through the COVID-19 pandemic, as he sets out to learn how to paint via books, workshops, and tutorials, alongside personal reflections on past artists he admires"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ten years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker was frustrated and disheartened. In the course of his research, he had become deeply disillusioned with the process of FOIA requests. He has been forced to wait years in some cases, while other requests have been answered only with documents rendered inscrutable, or even illegible, by copious redactions. Rather...
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a blossoming of creative nonfiction. In this extraordinary collection, Phillip Lopate gathers essays by forty-seven of America's best contemporary writers, mingling long-established eminences with newer voices and making room for a wide variety of perspectives and styles. The Contemporary American Essay is a monument to a remarkably adaptable form and a treat for anyone who loves fantastic...
15) Erotic stories
Publisher
Everyman's Pocket Classics, Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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