Nicholson Baker
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Nicholson Baker's Literary Porn
Friday, July 29, 2011
He’s written books about World War II, poetry, the fate of newspapers. But as a novelist, Nicholson Baker has another side. Back in the 1990s, he published two R-rated works of fiction: Vox (1993) and The Fermata (1995). Now he’s returning ...
Writer Meets Kindle
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Author Nicholson Baker took the Kindle 2 out for a spin, and he wrote about the experience in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Will he be "pulled into a world of compulsive, demonic book consumption?" Tune in to find out! Kindle owners: What's ...
Debating the Internet
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Lee Siegel, author of Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, and Nicholson Baker, author of Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, preview their debate at the New York Public Library over whether the internet offers more ...
Where There's Smoke...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
The Olympics are meant to bring the world together. And so, as the Summer Games approach, the world unites… in protest against China. We go live to San Francisco for the Olympic torch’s bumpy journey through the Bay Area. And writers Lee Siegel and Nicholson Baker preview their debate at ...
Is War Ever Good?
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Nicholson Baker asks if there’s ever such a thing as a "good war" and makes a strong case for pacifism. His new book is Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization.
Event: Nicholson Baker will be in conversation with Simon Winchester
Thursday, March ...
Good War
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Is there ever such a thing as a good war? Guest host Julie Burstein talks to Nicholson Baker about the uses of war, and the case for pacifism in our modern world. Also: poet Mark Doty. Then Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel. And Underreported looks into how women care ...
Nicholson Baker
Friday, March 07, 2008
According to Nicholson Baker, we’ve got World War II all wrong. For his new book Human Smoke, Baker scoured newspaper articles, interviews, and accounts of atrocities, and he tells Kurt that the case for the "good war" just doesn't add up.
Broadsheets, E-Ink, Redford
Thursday, January 19, 2006
This week in Studio 360, the novelist Nicholson Baker gets passionate about paper, and Robert Redford stops by to talk about acting, directing, and 25 years of Sundance.
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