Nicholson Baker

Room Temperature is Nicholson Baker's second book, and continues the genre established in his first novel The Mezzanine, though this time the action spans a few minutes at the narrator's home. Mike is feeding his baby daughter, "the Bug", as her head rests in the crook of his arm. He blows in the direction of a …

The Anthologist is a novel about poetry by Nicholson Baker which was first published in 2009. Its protagonist is Paul Chowder, a poet with a commission to prepare and edit an anthology of poetry, Only Rhyme. The novel shows his life, his thoughts, aspirations and struggles with writer's block.

U and I: A True Story is a non-fiction book by Nicholson Baker that was published in 1991. The book is a study of how a reader engages with an author's work: partly an appreciation of John Updike, and partly a kind of self-exploration. Rather than giving a traditional literary analysis, Baker begins the book by …

Les deux protagonistes de ce court roman n'ont pas de noms. Juste des voix. Ils se trouvent à plusieurs centaines de kilomètres l'un de l'autre, et ne doivent leur rencontre qu'aux hasards d'un réseau téléphonique qui les a mis en contact pour quelques heures. Ils vont vivre une histoire d'amour désincarnée, sans …