Author: Nicholson Baker

On an autumn day, at around three-fifteen in the afternoon, Mike sits down in the rocking chair to feed his infant daughter, Bug. The novel that un...

When Nicholson Baker, one of the most linguistically talented writers in America, set out to write a book about John Updike, the result was no ordi...

The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life, like: Why does one shoelace always wear out b...

Vox is the story of two voices, his and hers: two strangers who, having met on a telephone chat-line, switch to a private, one-on-one connection - ...

The author of the quirky masterpiece The Mezzanine turns a young father''s feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae of domestic...

In his startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive first novel--first published in 1986 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback--the author o...