Nicholson Baker

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Next book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. Last book: Baseless. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.

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Things one did not expect to happen today: Two Book Post writers among the Times's 22 funniest books since Catch 22: @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social & Joy Williams, via Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, and Jennifer Szalai. And lots of the others are dead! We aim to please www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/b...

22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’www.nytimes.com Because we could all use a laugh.

One of my loopy drawings in Finding a Likeness. Today is publication day!

This week Penguin's new Volumes podcast is about my book! Very touched by this penguinpressvolumes.buzzsprout.com/2329047/1480...

Finding a Likeness by Nicholson Baker - Penguin Press Volumespenguinpressvolumes.buzzsprout.com Happy publication day to Finding a Likeness by Nicholson Baker! Listen to editor Ann Godoff share backstory on the book, and stay tuned for a reading from the book.About the book: From the acclaimed a...

Charcoal drawing of Daniel Ellsberg when he was a young marine, before he blew the whistle on Vietnam

I drew Leonora Carrington, surrealist painter and writer, "who survived a month in a madhouse as well as a long affair with Max Ernst." Joy Williams in Book Post books.substack.com/p/review-joy...

Hah, thanks for reading - the New Yorker piece is a chapter from The Mezzanine, excerpted and edited by the late great Roger Angell!

Yesterday, I re-read “Shoelaces”, the 1988 New Yorker piece by the master of minutiae Nicholson Baker. Now every time I have to tie my shoes, I dread the possibility the laces will break.

Thank you for this post, Patricia! Enjoyed being a part of the Colby community!

Here's the drawing the writer Nicholson Baker did of my husband, Michael Burke.

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A new drawing from Nicholson Baker of @pipadam.bsky.social, a piece of Nick's learning-to-draw project documented in his forthcoming book, Finding A Likeness, available for preorder here: www.browseaboutbooks.com/book/9781984... See Nick's other drawings here: books.substack.com/t/n-baker-dr...

Hello Bluesky, here's a drawing of Cedric the dachshund. I'm a writer who has taken up drawing for fun and I have a book coming out tomorrow, April 2, 2024. It's called Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art, and it's published by Penguin Press.

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