Researched over the better part of a decade, Nicholson Baker’s new book, “Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act,” chronicles his efforts to confirm whether or ...

Nicholson Baker lay awake at night again beside his slumbering wife and their dogs, his mind caught in the tunnel of his obsession. As the novelist recounts in Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the ...

Paul Chowder, the rambling protagonist of The Anthologist, returns in Baker’s less successful latest. Between trips to Planet Fitness and disquisitions on subjects such as dance music and automobile ...

Nicholson Baker's Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids (Blue Rider Press) was born of a desire to write a book articulating his theories about education – theories based on having had kids ...

Here is Nicholson Baker -- former Eastman School of Music student, bassoonist, literary extremist and harrowingly civilized enemy of literary gentility -- to give you a piece of the bold imagination ...

Nicholson Baker's new novel Traveling Sprinkler is ostensibly a sequel to his 2009 book The Anthologist, following protagonist Paul Chowder's efforts to win back the woman of his dreams. But at its ...

The amateur does it for love, the professional does it for a living, the hobbyist does it for fun. The word “hobby” comes from hobbyhorse, a children’s toy that vaguely resembles the real thing.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When Nicholson Baker first fell in love with YouTube, it was for its “outpouring of human miscellany” and “first person ...

Nicholson Baker wasn’t kidding when he subtitled “House of Holes,” his new novel, “A Book of Raunch.” Indeed, it’s a bona fide filth-fest, so unrelentingly graphic that there’s not much I can quote ...

An American novelist is breathing new life into the theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a lab leak in China — a notion that several scientists agree is “absolutely” possible. In a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Nicholson Baker is an Author with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2001 Speech as a Co-Founder and Director for the American Newspaper ...

Nicholson Baker has been able to create a version of himself in the figure of Paul Chowder, an accomplished poet. Chowder likes poetry that rhymes and follows a regular metric — enough of all that ...