Nicholson Baker’s latest novel, The Anthologist, was published in September 2009. (July 2010)
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Letter to John Updike
July 15, 2010
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The Charms of Wikipedia
March 20, 2008
Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
by John Broughton
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Leading with the Grumper
August 11, 1994
Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Volume I, A-G) edited by J.E. Lighter
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Survival of the Fittest
November 4, 1993
Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West
by M. B. Parkes
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On the Stovetop of Sleep
February 13, 2013
I used to think that it was a bad thing to mention dreams in fiction. I’d read an essay by John Leonard, I believe it was, in The New York Times Book Review sometime in the late Seventies, in which he said that dreams in novels were a mistake. But I rejected that notion ages ago.
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We Don't Know the Language We Don't Know
April 8, 2011
One Saturday last month I went to Lafayette Park in Washington D.C., across the street from the White House, in order to protest several wars.
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Letter to John Updike
June 21, 2010
Twenty-five years ago, when I was twenty-eight and trying to write a novel, I sent this fan letter to John Updike. I lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, back then, and my girlfriend, now my wife, lived in Boston. I printed the letter out all on one page, with narrow margins, using my new Kaypro computer and Juki daisywheel printer. Updike didn’t answer—he couldn’t, because I didn’t put a return address on the envelope.