Blogs about: Nicholson Baker
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Human Smoke reviewed by Colm Toibin
Next week, Colm Toibin will be appearing with Nathan Englander at the Wayward Sons session at the Virginia Festival of the Book. You can get a preview of Toibin’s style in this NYT review of Nic… more »
Charlottesville Words
Library nostalgia and Nicholson Baker
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Maria wrote 1 week ago: Emily’s post on library nostalgia brings to mind Nicholson Baker’s Double Fold, a book I … more »
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 »
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 »
Wikipedia vs establishment sources
slewfootsnoop wrote 1 month ago: Interesting article in today’s Guardian from Nicholson Baker. He gushes lovingly and engagi … more »
Pat Buchanan WWII Tragedy of Errors
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oldatlantic wrote 1 month ago: http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/080403_war.htm Pat Buchanan with perfect timing comes out with a book … more »
Wikipedia: to delete or not to delete?
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socialcapital wrote 1 month ago: The Economist has an interesting story about the debate raging within Wikipedia about whether Wikipe … more »
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 »
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 »
Human Smoke reviewed by Colm Toibin
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Elizabeth wrote 1 month ago: Next week, Colm Toibin will be appearing with Nathan Englander at the Wayward Sons session at the Vi … more »
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 »
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 »
Human Smoke Roundtable
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Elizabeth wrote 2 months ago: It’s a resounding broadside against critics who think literary blogging is just a bunch of kn … more »
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 »
Preservation: A Brush with Greatness Story
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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 »
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 »
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 »
Death Proof - A Review
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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 »
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 »
