Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish 'X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber...

In Nicholson Baker's novel, Emmett gets up every morning for 33 mornings--one for each match with which he lights the fire in the fireplace--and drinks his coffee, eats his breakfast, and writes his daily chapter about his life. In th...

In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novel—first published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback—the author of Vox and The Fermata uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling ...

The Anthologist captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose style that have made award-winning author Nicholson Baker an American master.

Nicholson Baker's CHECKPOINT is unusual in many ways--even for a novelist who thrives on the unusual. It is 115 pages long, it contains only two characters, it is written mostly in dialogue, and it is about one character's desire to a...

Baker has written a novel that remaps the territory of sex--solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. Written in the form of a phone conversation between two strangers, Vox is an erotic classic that plac...

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing sexual escapade—a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure resort where normal rule...

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. Luna meets a man made of light bulbs at a tanning parlor. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing, sex-positive escapade, House of Holes. Baker...

Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy -- a wide-ranging, astonishingl...

In his second novel, Baker turns a young father's feeding-time reverie into a catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.

The Anthologist captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose style that have made award-winning author Nicholson Baker an American master.

The author of Room Temperature captures the insight and wonder of childhood in a hilarious, touching portrayal of the world as seen by a nine-year-old girl who moves to England with her family. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. Tour. NY...

TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, BOTH OF NICHOLSON BAKER'S BRILLIANT NOVELS FEATURING BELOVED HERO AND POET PAUL CHOWDER  A New York Times notable book and a national bestseller, Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist introduces his quirkie...

Paul Chowder, the poet protagonist of Nicholson Baker's widely acclaimed novel The Anthologist, is turning fifty-five and missing his ex-girlfriend, Roz, rather desperately. As he approaches the dreaded birthday, Paul is uninspire...

Nicholson Baker is most famous for Vox, the phone-sex novel Monica Lewinsky gave President Clinton, but the vastly superior U and I contains Baker's own dirty little secret: an obsession with John Updike. Not since Salieri in Peter Sh...

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