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4 unusual facts about Nicholson Baker


Barclay Hotel

The narrator of Nicholson Baker's novel The Fermata first discovers his ability to "freeze time" while staying at the Barclay Hotel as a child.

Drinking straw

Nicholson Baker's novel, The Mezzanine (1988), includes a detailed discussion of various types of drinking straws experienced by the narrator and their relative merits.

Nicholson Baker

The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer's Newspaper (1898– 1911) (2005, Bulfinch; ISBN 0-8212-6193-2)

United States Newspaper Program

The most outspoken critic of the United States Newspaper Program is the author Nicholson Baker.


Fermata

Novelist Nicholson Baker used the idea of a sustained pause in The Fermata, which explored the (mostly sexual) desires of a young man who could stop time.

Francesco Cancellieri

His essays begin with short islands of statements, but rapidly these are surrounded by an ocean of footnotes, an erudite diluvium of quotations and citations, resembling the style of the modern novel The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.

Moral equivalence

Forms of the argument are also found in the works of authors not sympathetic to Nazism, such as F.J.P. Veale, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Sobran, and Nicholson Baker.


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