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    Finding a Likeness

    Nicholson Baker

    "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…

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    Running in Borrowed Shoes

    Catherine Baker Nicholson

    Thane Baker grew up in the Kansas Dust Bowl. An Olympic medal winner from his small town gave seven-year-old Thane hopes for his own Olympic glory. When new on his…

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    Room Temperature

    Nicholson Baker

    A warm-hearted, tender novel about marriage, fatherhood and playing the tuba.

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    A Box of Matches

    Nicholson Baker

    During a month in the life of a forty-five-year-old editor of medical textbooks, Emmett–married with children, a cat, and a duck– ruminates about the meaning of life during his pre-dawn…

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    U & I: A True Story

    Nicholson Baker

    Baker’s startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike.

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    A Box of Matches

    Nicholson Baker

    A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then, he rummages through the…

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    Checkpoint

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    Two men - Jay and Ben - sit in a Washington hotel room. Jay has called his old friend Ben there - to tell him why and how he wants…

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    Checkpoint: A Novel

    Nicholson Baker

    From the bestselling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation comes his most audacious novel yet. Jay has summoned his old friend Ben to a hotel…

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    Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    Nicholson Baker

    From the bestselling author of Vox comes a devastating expose of the strip-mining of American paper history, motivated by an obsession with library shelf-space. With meticulous detective work and explanatory…

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    Room Temperature

    Nicholson Baker

    The author of the quirky masterpiece The Mezzanine turns a young father’s feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae of domestic love. A delightful book, homey and comfortable…

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    The Everlasting Story of Nory

    Nicholson Baker

    The supreme fabulist of the everyday follows the exciting dreams of a precocious heroine who wants to become a dentist, has nightmares about teeth, and thinks about God. Baker evokes…

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    The Fermata

    Nicholson Baker

    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…

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

    Nicholson Baker

    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…

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    The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels

    Nicholson Baker

    Published together for the first time, an original omnibus edition of New York Times -bestselling author Nicholson Baker’s acclaimed Paul Chowder novels– The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler.

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    House of Holes: A Book of Raunch

    Nicholson Baker

    Baker returns to the eroticism of his earlier Vox (1995) and The Fermata (1994) but kicks it up about a dozen notches … Baker explores a fine line between eroticism…

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    Vox

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    Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex–solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers…

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    Vox

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    Baker’s x-rated literary masterpiece - revamped into a stunning new package.

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    The Mezzanine

    Nicholson Baker

    Readers follow the journey of our hero up the escalator and learn why straws don’t sink in milk cartons; whether the hot air blowers in bathrooms are really more sanitary…

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    The Mezzanine: A Novel.

    Nicholson Baker

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    U and I: A True Story

    Nicholson Baker

    Baker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size–fellow novelist…

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    Mezzanine

    Nicholson Baker

    Readers follow the journey of our hero up the escalator and learn why straws don’t sink in milk cartons; whether the hot air blowers in bathrooms are really more sanitary…

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    Vandals in the Stacks?: A Response to Nicholson Baker’s Assault on Libraries

    Richard J. Cox

    Libraries and archives have violated their public trust, argues Nicholson Baker in his controversial book ^IDouble Fold^R, by destroying traditional books, newspapers, and other paper-based collections.

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    Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

    Nicholson Baker

    In this funny and honest work, Nicholson Baker writes about his experience as a substitute teacher and provides us with a complex, often touching look at public schooling in America.

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    Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

    Nicholson Baker

    In this funny and honest work, Nicholson Baker writes about his experience as a substitute teacher and provides us with a complex, often touching look at public schooling in America.

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    Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

    Nicholson Baker

    In this funny and honest work, Nicholson Baker writes about his experience as a substitute teacher and provides us with a complex, often touching look at public schooling in America.

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    The Labyrinth

    Harold Rosenberg,Nicholson Baker,Saul Steinberg

    A seminal work by an artist whose drawings in The New Yorker, LIFE, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications influenced an entire generation of American artists and writers.

    Throughout his…

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