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  The Anthologist: A Novel

  by Nicholson Baker

  The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder -- a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also... (more)
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  The Fermata (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by 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 seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay" (Seattle Times). "Sparkling."--San Francisco Chronicle.
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  Checkpoint: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Nicholson Baker

  From Nicholson Baker, best-selling author of Vox and the most original writer of his generation, his most controversial novel yet.
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  The Mezzanine (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Nicholson Baker

  Turns an ordinary ride up an office escalator into a meditation on our relations with familiar objects--shoelaces, straws, and more. Baker's debut novel, and a favorite amongst many of us here.
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  Vox (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Nicholson Baker

  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, Vox is an erotic classic that places the author in the first rank of America's major writers. Reading tour.
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  Room Temperature (Vintage Contemporaries)

  by Nicholson Baker

  In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.
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  Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Vintage)

  by Nicholson Baker

  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 to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With... (more)
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  The Everlasting Story of Nory

  by Nicholson Baker

  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 and inventing dolls. She has nightmares about teeth, which may explain her career choice. She is going to school in England, where she is mocked for her accent... (more)