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Nicholson Baker

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3 picks · 1986–2000

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Deadline
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about library storage of newspapers, microfilm & writer’s American Newspaper Repository... Writer tells about a complaint voiced by …

China Pattern
fiction ·

Lucy spends summers with her great-aunt, Mrs. Charles Parch, in Connecticut, who likes Early English china and owns several rare pieces of Bow and Chelsea …

Pants on Fire
fiction ·

Writer remembers the day when his life as an adult began. He was four months into his first year as a businessman, and he had only five shirts. He …