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 Nicholson Baker Quotes
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 The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone...
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 Nicholson Baker Information
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Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of thought. His unconventional novels deal with topics like voyeurism and planned assassination, but generally...
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 The Boston Globe The Paper Crusader Nicholson Baker
04/29/2001: 1,202 words, approx. 4 pages Nicholson Baker is a man obsessed. The object of his passion? Old newspapers destined for the dumpster, and old books tossed out by the thousands as libraries convert their stacks to microfilm. Why does he want to save them? Among other things, the writer... summary from source:
The Review of Contemporary Fiction Nicholson Baker. A Box of Matches.(Book Review)
06/22/2003: 330 words, approx. 1 pages Random House, 2003. 178 pp. $19.95. To say that no one writes like Nicholson Baker is at once a compliment and a simple fact. Whether he is writing about sex, libraries, or corporate bathrooms, Baker's works are characterized by humor, precision of... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Smiley\'d5s Guide to the Novel\'d1 A Cure for What Ails You
10/16/2005: 1,209 words, approx. 4 pagesChalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-realistic horror, while others about-faced into fantasy. What Jane Smiley did, as... summary from source:
The New York Observer Smiley's Guide to the Novel- A Cure for What Ails You
10/16/2005: 1,209 words, approx. 4 pagesChalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-realistic horror, while others about-faced into fantasy. What Jane Smiley did, as...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Ross Chambers
16,931 words, approx. 56 pages
In the following essay, Chambers explores the narratological and philosophical significance of open-ended digressions and subjective contemplation in The Mezzanine. Contrasting Baker's novel with Descartes's Meditations, Chambers contends that the discontinuous narrative and trivial private preoccupations of The Mezzanine serve to shift the narrative structure of the novel in favor of “progressive extenuation” and “paradigmatic lingering” rather than closure.
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Critical Review by Robert Darnton
6,126 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following review, Darnton offers a generally favorable assessment of Double Fold, though finds shortcomings in Baker's rhetorical exaggerations and his view of historical sources.
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Critical Essay by Arthur Saltzman
3,860 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, Saltzman provides an overview of Baker's life, writings, literary style and thematic concerns, and critical reception.
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