Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker sits down with Jordan to discuss writing about the unsung pleasures and details of the world-- things like the way your mother cuts up a banana, or the advertisements in your favorite magazine. Things that "live in this between area of noticing, they're part of the background of life." Mentioned in the episode: Nicholson's book about WWII, Human Smoke "Sock (Object Lessons)" by Kim Adrian "The Lab Leak Hypothesis," New York Magazine Nicholson Baker has written seventeen books, including The Mezzanine, Vox, Human Smoke, The Anthologist, and Baseless— also an art book, The World on Sunday, in collaboration with his wife Margaret Brentano. Several of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, and he has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Herman Hesse Prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Nicholson Baker is an episode from Thresholds by Jordan Kisner.

This episode is 40:12 long.

This episode was published on Jun 18, 2025.

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