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Nicholson Baker's journey into the craft of painting before and through the COVID-19 pandemic, as he sets out to learn how to paint via books, workshops, and tutorials, alongside personal reflections on past artists he admires"--

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The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder--a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secret...

The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder--a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secret...

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The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder--a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend Roz has recently left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secret...

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A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act - FOIA - and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writersEight years ago, while investigating the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker requested a series of Air Force documents from the early 1950s ...

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The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw? -  our narrator interrogates the inner-workings of corporate living as he traipses his way down escalators to the first floor and through the mundaneness of office life.Mixing humour with the existentialism that surrounds all our working lives,  The Mezz...

A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act - FOIA - and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writersTen years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker was frustrated and disheartened. In the course of his resear...

I supplenti hanno vita difficile. L'ha sperimentato anche Nicholson Baker, saggista e romanziere americano che nel 2014 diventa supplente a chiamata in un distretto scolastico del Maine. Lo aspettano ventotto giorni di insegnamento e quasi mille bambini e ragazzi di tutte le età, dall'asilo alla scuola superiore. Baker sceglie di raccontare la sua esperienza non nella forma di un libro di teoria pedagogica né di cupa diagnosi sullo stato di sa...

Jay und Ben, zwei Schulfreunde, sitzen in einem Hotelzimmer in Washington zusammen. Jay will Präsident Bush ermorden und erklärt Ben, warum: Bush hat den Krieg im Irak losgetreten und Tausende Menschen getötet. «Als die Türme zusammenfielen, wusste ich, dass wir sehr bald irgendwo bomben würden. So machen wir das eben.»Jay ist, man merkt es bald, geistig «an den Rändern etwas ausgefranst». Seine unfehlbaren Mordwaffen sind z. B. eine ferngeste...

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Baker's startlingly honest, very funny account of his obsession with John Updike, part of a stunning redesign of Baker's Granta backlist.