Nicholson Baker

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Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist.

His fiction tends to emphasize narration in favour of careful description and characterization.

He often focuses on minute details of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness.

Baker has written about poetry, literature, library systems, engineering, culture, politics, time manipulation, youth, and sex.

He has written about libraries being thrown out of books and newspapers, as well as establishing the American Newspaper Repository.

In 2001, he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his nonfiction book Double Fold: Libraries and Assault on Paper, as well as the International Hermann Hesse Prize (Germany) in 2014.

Baker has also written about and edited Wikipedia.

He has also written about the buildup to World War II as a pacifist.

Life

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 in New York City.

He studied briefly at the Eastman School of Music and received a B.A. Haverford College has a Bachelor of English.

Baker admits to being an atheist, but he does attend Quaker meetings. Baker says he has "always had pacifist leanings."

In college, Baker met Margaret Brentano; they now live in Maine and have two grown children.

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Career

With the books The Mezzanine (1988) and Room Temperature (1990), Baker established a name for himself. Both books have a very limited time span for the most part. The Mezzanine appears to have occurred over the course of an escalator ride, and Room Temperature is set as a father feeds his baby daughter.

A True Story (1991) is a non-fiction study of how a reader engages with an author's work. It's partially about Baker's admiration for John Updike's career as well as a self-exploration. Baker begins the book by announcing that he will read no more Updike than he does. Any of the Updike quotations are presented as coming from memory alone, and several of them are inaccurate, with correct versions and Baker's (later) commentary on the inaccuracies.

Vox, The Fermata, and House of Holes are among the erotic novels that criticize together. Vox (1992) is a video game between two young single people on a pay-per-minute chat line. It was Baker's first New York Times bestseller, and Monica Lewinsky gave President Bill Clinton a copy while having an affair. Baker coined the term femalia in Vox. The Fermata (1994) also discusses sexual life and fantasy. Arno Strine, the protagonist, likes to speed and take off women's clothing. Critics were outraged by the results. It was also a best seller. House of Holes (2011) is about a magical place where all sexual perversions and fetishes are allowed. It's a collection of tales that are more or less related to each other. The novellas are erotic in the sense of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron's Decameron's Decameron's Decameron's Decameron's Decameron. The titular House of Holes is a fantasy sex resort in which people can partake in bizarre sexual activities, such as groin transference and sex with trees. People enter the House of Holes by such methods as tumbling through a clothes dryer or through a drinking straw, akin to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Baker is a zealous critic of libraries' unnecessary demise of paper-based media. In a review by The New Yorker, he wrote several vehement articles condemning the San Francisco Public Library for delivering thousands of books to a landfill, eliminating card catalogs, and destroying old books and newspapers in favour of microfilm. In 1997, Baker received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award in San Francisco in recognition of his efforts. Baker founded the American Newspaper Repository in 1999 to save old newspapers from burning by libraries. He published Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper in 2001 about preservation, newspapers, and the American library system. An excerpt from The New Yorker's July 24, 2000 issue "Deadline: The Author's Desperate Bid to Save America's Past" was an excerpt. The exhaustively researched book (in the paperback version, there are 63 pages of endnotes and 18 pages of references) chronicles Baker's search for thousands of books and journals that were updated and often destroyed during the 1980s and 1990s microfilming booms.

Jay and Ben, two old high school buddies, who discuss Jay's attempt to assassinate President George W. Bush, are the subject of this book.

Human smuggling: The Beginnings of World War II: The End of Civilization (2008), a human history of World War II that challenges the commonly held belief that the Allies intended to avoid the war at all costs, but were compelled into action by Hitler's unforgiving behavior. It consists mainly of official government transcripts and other official government records from the time. According to him, the pacifists were correct in their beliefs.

In the New York Review of Books, Baker reviewed John Broughton's Wikipedia: The Missing Handbook. Baker's essay "Wageless" describes Wikipedia's history, its history, and his own editing work. On April 10, 2008, his essay "How I fell in love with Wikipedia" was published in The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom.

Paul Chowder, a writer who is attempting to write an introduction to a poetry anthology, is narrated by the Anthologist (2009). He is unable to start writing due to his health, and instead focuses on poets and poetry throughout history.

Baker spent 28 days as a substitute teacher in some Maine public schools as part of his 2016 book Going to School With a Thousand Kids. Baker tried to find out "what life in the classroom looks like." He also wrote about the experience for The New York Times Magazine.

Baker wrote a cover story for New York magazine in January 2021 about the COVID-19 lab leak theory and expressing his dissatisfaction with the theory's plausibility.

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Awards

• 1997: James Madison Freedom of Information Award.
• 2001: National Book Critics Circle Award for Double Fold.
• 2014: Baker and his German translator Eike Schönfeld won the Calw Hermann Hesse Prize for the German translation of Double Fold.
• 2018: Baker was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.