Blogs about: Nicholson Baker

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Library nostalgia and Nicholson Baker6 comments

Maria wrote 1 week ago: Emily’s post on library nostalgia brings to mind Nicholson Baker’s Double Fold, a book I … more »

Tags: Digitization

digression - honest to blog

songsaboutbuildingsandfood wrote 1 week ago: But Baker never answers the questions that he asks. That is, he has not undertaken the historian … more »

Tags: Uncategorized

Life on Mars & The Mezzanine

eleventh stack wrote 3 weeks ago: Are we alone in the universe? Do aliens exist? Or are we, ourselves, the strangers in our own worlds … more »

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Wikipedia vs establishment sources

slewfootsnoop wrote 1 month ago: Interesting article in today’s Guardian from Nicholson Baker.  He gushes lovingly and engagi … more »

Tags: Academics, Celebrities, Fact Checking, Finding background, Finding People

Pat Buchanan WWII Tragedy of Errors2 comments

oldatlantic wrote 1 month ago: http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/080403_war.htm Pat Buchanan with perfect timing comes out with a book … more »

Tags: Pat Buchanan

Wikipedia: to delete or not to delete?1 comment

socialcapital wrote 1 month ago: The Economist has an interesting story about the debate raging within Wikipedia about whether Wikipe … more »

Tags: Deletions, Economist, Inclusion, kevin kelly, Wiki, Wikipedia

Things, and stuff

elsiem wrote 1 month ago: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber had me engrossed from the first line and kept me there … more »

Tags: Books

The New York Times Reviews HUMAN SMOKE

Blog Host wrote 1 month ago: Today The New York Times Book Review examined Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke. Here is part of C … more »

Tags: Book Reviews

Human Smoke reviewed by Colm Toibin1 comment

Elizabeth wrote 1 month ago: Next week, Colm Toibin will be appearing with Nathan Englander at the Wayward Sons session at the Vi … more »

Tags: Authors, Blogging, Books, Charlottesville, Reading, VABook08, Virginia

Nicholson Baker's HUMAN SMOKE

Blog Host wrote 1 month ago: A Brief Review of Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke I did not open Human Smoke with an open mind about … more »

Tags: Book Reviews

Editing Wikipedia: The first step in a steep descent

Mike Shapiro wrote 1 month ago: The first hit on a Google search for Kazuo Ishiguro is his Wikipedia page, which, 24 hours ago, desc … more »

Tags: writing, Reading

Human Smoke Roundtable2 comments

Elizabeth wrote 2 months ago: It’s a resounding broadside against critics who think literary blogging is just a bunch of kn … more »

Tags: Authors, Blogging, Books, Charlottesville, Reading, VABook08, Virginia

I'll pass on that wiki-meatball

tea4t wrote 2 months ago: Nicholson Baker has an interesting essay in the New York Review of Books about the politics of Wikip … more »

Tags: recreational reading

Preservation: A Brush with Greatness Story1 comment

Steven Harris wrote 2 months ago: In 1997-98 I was serving as the conference programing chair for a section of ALA. I wanted to get a … more »

Tags: technology

Roundup: You May Have the Falcon...

Mark Athitakis wrote 2 months ago: Stephanie Salter tries to get her head around Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon. My old pl … more »

Tags: Adrian Tomine, Dashiell Hammett, Dept. of Self-Promotion, richard price

The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker

wjkennaugh wrote 3 months ago: I first stumbled across Nicholson Baker probably 10 years ago, and I’ve cherished his work eve … more »

Tags: Book Review

Death Proof - A Review2 comments

jtatham wrote 7 months ago: Maybe it’s because we indulge Quentin Tarantino. Perhaps that’s why he gets worse. There was a t … more »

Tags: Film Reviews, American Film

No Telephone To Heaven (the last pre-iPhone Phone-Photo-Essay forever)

Ross wrote 11 months ago: Here I am, making plans to change London again. It wants shaking up every so often… indeed, I … more »

Tags: chris morris, Kieran, London, Muriel Spark, Telephones


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