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Mezzanine (Paperback)
by Nicholson Baker
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A Year in Reading: Mark O'Connell 7
His compassion and clarity are such that I often found myself thinking that if God existed and had sat down to write a novel, this is what it would look like.
Ham Steaks and Manstarch: Nicholson Baker Returns to the Sex Beat 4
House of Holes is a carefully constructed contrivance, a vehicle for exploring a fantasy that could exist only in a country that's both obsessed with sex and deeply conflicted about it. In short, it's every pubescent boy's wet dream. But is it good fiction?
Good Luck, Memory 13
How much of what we read do we actually retain? Should we care? The accidental "hap" of memory and that cherished literary principle: "remember the poop joke."
Consciousness on the Page: A Primer on the Novels of Nicholson Baker 2
Nicholson Baker understands how often people think about sex, but he also understands that, often times, they just think about shoelaces — and he understands those thoughts of sex and shoelaces aren’t as far apart, in form or in content, as they might at first seem.