FICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 1992
"First Harold Brodkey as the Mahler, the Liszt, of the hand-job, now Nicholson Baker as its David Letterman."
On a private adult phone-sex line, Jim, a West Coaster in his late 20s, connects with East Coast Abby.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 1994
"But drama is drama and porn porn, this among the most literary-respectable of the latter that money can buy."
The talented Baker returns with sex for sophisticates, making Vox (1992) seem like a warmup exercise.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 1998
"It rings wrong, totally. (Author tour)"
The author of The Fermata (1994), among others, offers an extended dramatic monologue by a nine-year-old American girl living in England, a plotless series of riffs exploring the curiosities of a life among English-speaking foreigners.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 13, 2001
"If even half of what Baker alleges is true, some of America's most honored librarians have a lot of explaining to do."
In a passionate cri de coeur sure to raise controversy and alarm, novelist Baker (
The Everlasting Story of Nory, 1998, etc.) accuses America's librarians of betraying the public trust as they rush to microfilm and digitize.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 14, 2003
"Skilled. Often charming. Minor."
Baker (
The Everlasting Story of Nory, 1998, etc.) applies his fine-tooth comb--or magnifying glass--to a short and tightly controlled meander through the hyper-dailiness of domestic life--in a kind of extended prose haiku.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 10, 2004
"An absolute treasure for anti-Bushists, the purest sin-and-snake-venom deceit and villainy to pro-Bushists. Let the reader-voter call it."
From Baker (
A Box of Matches, 2003, etc.), a tiny little slip of a thing about--about
what? About assassinating George W.
Bush?
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