1 day ago by Mark

NewsFactor - Back in August, Nicholson Baker wrote a devastating review of the Kindle 2 in the New Yorker. Noting that everyone from Newsweek to the tech blogs to just-plain-folks was calling the new Kindle “important,” Baker gave Amazon’s latest version of the device a thorough test-read. He was un ...

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7 days ago by eleventh stack

What attracted me to The Anthologist was the reviews. If you’ve never read a Nicholson Baker novel, and I hadn’t, not much really happens. In great detail. Minuscule detail. Microscopic detail. Not to make to fine a point of it, but, really, there you go. Next to nothing at all happens. The plot, or ...

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16 days ago by pseudoswashbuckler

“Let’s have a look at this poem,” says speaker Paul Chowder in Nicholson Baker’s new book. Here it is, going down. You can tell it’s a poem because it’s swimming in a little gel pack of white space… The words are making room, they’re saying, Rumble, rumble, stand back now, this is going to be good. ...

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16 days ago by filmsfoodsfountainpens

Long, long ago and far, far away (ok 1998 and Virginia), I majored in English at a university that shall remain nameless. At the time, I held great aspirations of becoming a writer. I wrote short stories, critical essays, and incredibly boring technical documents, and like many aspiring writers, I w ...

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17 days ago by Nicola di Bowery

NYT - Why Ahmadinejad Voted Against Occupying the U.S. Embassy in 1979 Corriere - Lippi non convoca Cassano neanche per le amichevoli Gothamist - Upper East Side Eateries Accused of Racism Piovono Rane – La Santanchè e Maometto The Guardian - Publishers are decision-averse Jacket Copy - Leftist Inte ...

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19 days 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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20 days 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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21 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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29 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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30 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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