The Anthologist

A Novel

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
Paul Chowder is trying to write the introduction to a new anthology of rhyming verse, but he's having a hard time getting started. The result of his fitful struggles is The Anthologist, Quaker novelist and thinker Nicholson Baker's brilliantly funny and exquisite love story about poetry. "Baker makes poetry seem as necessary as air, and his enthusiasm is likely to wake readers up to its marvelous possibilities" Margaret Quamme, The Columbus dispatch

S & S Paperbacks 2009 243 PP. Paper

$4.50 (in stock)

Human Smoke (remainder)

The Beginnings Of World War Ii, The End Of Civilization

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
This is an extraordinary testament to pacifism from Quaker novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker. Here in a staccato, chronological chain of newspaper and diary reports, with brief comments or context of his own, Baker covers the period from 1842 to 1941. Was it inevitable that wars would occur? Could events have transpired peacefully or at least differently? Baker provides contemporary reports of events and leaves it to the reader to decide. Many Quakers (and their work for peace) are included. "In Human Smoke, Nicholson Baker turns his unrivaled literary talents to pacifism... Baker's book is truly original." - Chalmers Johnson. was $30.00in US edition-this is the British edition.

S&S 2008 576 PP. Cloth

$8.00 (in stock)

Room Temperature

BY NICHOLSON BAKER
A young house husband is feeding his baby daughter from a bottle. The book is a 20 minute reverie of his thoughts in that cozy place. He reflects on peanut butter, air nozzles in airplanes and the microscopic interactions of love - among other things.

Vintage 1984 116 PP. Paper

$10.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)