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The Size Of Thoughts
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409040170
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook

The Size Of Thoughts

Essays and Other Lumber

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THE SIZE OF THOUGHTS brings together over a decade's worth of Baker's essays and journalism. His subjects range from extinct forms of punctuation to the tribulations of reading aloud; from the contemplation of the unbuilt model airplane to the mechanics of changing one's mind. It also includes a new, long and previously unpublished essay on the vagaries of scholarship and bookish pedantry centering on the word 'lumber'. Throughout, his exquisite and playful use of language make this collection a delight.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409040170
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
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About the author

Nicholson Baker

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. Baker has two grown children; he and his wife live on the Penobscot River in Maine.
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