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"Baker is one of the most beautiful, original and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades . . . and takes a kind of mad scientist's delight in the way things work and how the world is put together."--Charles McGrath "The New York Times Magazine "
"His prose is so luminescent and so precise it manually recalibrates our brains."--Lev Grossman "Time "
"Mr. Baker is a wise and amiable cultural commentator worth listening to. . . . [his] prose is polished, witty . . . his essays are always provocative and entertaining."--Cynthis Crossen "The Wall Street Journal "
"Nicholson Baker is such a swell, smart writer that he rarely - maybe never - tips his hand.... In Baker's view the mundane, closely enough observed, may be the skate key to the sublime."--Carolyn See "The Washington Post "
"[A] winning new book. . . . This singular writer . . . can mount an argument skillfully and deliver an efficient conclusive kick."--The San Francisco Chronicle
"A fundamentally radical author . . . you can never be sure quite where Baker is going to take you. . . . [He] is an essayist in the tradition of GK Chesterton and Max Beerbohm, writing winning fantasies upon whatever chance thoughts may come into his head."--Financial Times (London)
"What these works share is a sense that how we think, our idiosyncratic dance with both experience and memory, defines who we are."--The Los Angeles Times
"Baker looks at the world around us in a way that is not only artful and entertaining but instructive."--Charleston Post & Courier
"Baker's new essay collection, The Way the World Works, is always absorbing, merging his interest in solid, tangible objects with his devotion to the life of the mind. . . . simply dazzling."--Seattle Times
"Exhilarating . . . Eye-opening . . . Baker continues his project of bringing new dimensions and idiosyncrasies to the personal essay, which he is devoted to reviving and reinventing."--The Boston Globe
New York Times bestselling author Nicholson Baker has assembled a “provocative and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) collection of his most original and brilliant pieces from the last fifteen years.
From political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the OED, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. The Way the World Works is a keen-minded, generous-spirited compendium by a modern American master.
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