1 day ago by Ricco Siasoco

The Wall Street Journal compiles that oft-visited subject of writers and their habits. In “ How to Write a Great Novel,” top-notch novelists from Edwidge Danticat to one of my favorite writers, Dan Chaon, discuss hours clocked, font size (Ann Rice uses 14-point Courier), and plot points outlined on ...

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1 day ago by Robin Sloan

Over at Kickstarter, I wrote up a few things I learned while writing Annabel Scheme. I will also use this as an excuse to link to this great WSJ round-up of writers’ habits. Nicholson Baker’s routine is almost mystical: Most days, Nicholson Baker rises at 4 a.m. to write at his home in South Berwick ...

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3 days ago by Felicity

An essay I return to again and again in my studies is ‘ Concerning the objects on my table‘ by Georges Perec. Other texts I have enjoyed recently are Nicholson Baker’s A Box of Matches, and Xavier de Maistre’s A Journey round my Room. As sound-diary makers, we can learn much from the attentive way t ...

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11 days ago by Scott Esposito

(This week I'm covering the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. This event is On Hearing Voices and Seeing Places You've Never Been, featuring Nicholson Baker, Iain Pears, Adam Thorpe, David Wroblewski, and host Charles Foran . At this event, the very first thing I noted was that it was no ...

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11 days ago by Leon Wing

The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker My rating: 5 of 5 stars In The Anthologist American writer Nicholson Baker writes about my hobby horse, poetry. He waxes throughout his new novel about meter and beats. Not all the time, of course. There has to be a story in there somewhere, or it’ll be merely a te ...

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14 days ago by John S

A few months ago, Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist came out to a reception of some very generous reviews. This shouldn’t be totally surprising; Baker’s book, about a minor poet struggling to write the introduction to his forthcoming anthology of rhyme, is infectious and endearing. Paul Chowder, the ...

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15 days ago by Christine Zibas

The Anthologist Nicholson Baker ISBN: 978-1-4165-7244-2 This book is a plum. Nicholson Baker has written a totally amazing book that everyone should rush out and buy…immediately. I do not say these things lightly. Let me start again, to give this book its just review. Is it possible for a book to be ...

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16 days ago by crookedshore

Last year I read two books by favourite writers, both of which disappointed a little. The biggest let-down was Exiles, by Ron Hansen, at least part of which was about a poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The other more slight disappointment was So Brave Young and Handsome by Leif Enger, which was about a n ...

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19 days ago by dbj

Bipartisan Cafe / Portland, OR The following scene takes place a couple pages before the end of Nicholson Baker’s excellent new novel, The Anthologist. To set things up: the narrator is a minor contemporary poet named Paul Chowder, who is in the midst of leading a class at an international poetry co ...

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21 days ago by Kimberly

Meet Paul Chowder. He needs to write an introduction to a poetry anthology, his girlfriend has left him and he’s having a series of minor accidents. In short, he’s a mess. But it makes a great story! I love the way Nicholson Baker wrote this novel – most sentences are fairly short and direct and the ...

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