false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170445835m/54958.jpg 54958 6 Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book, The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bomb Vox saw his popularity mushroom. Baker's great gift is a precision of observational detail that has a peculiarly incisive effect on a reader's consciousness. Here is over a decade's worth of his essays and articles, including the much-praised card catalogue article first published in the <i>New Yorker</i>. <B>The Size of Thoughts</B>, through its varied forays into the realms of the overlooked, the underfunded, and the wrongfully scrapped, is a funny and thought-provoking book by one of the most distinctive stylists and thinkers of our time. 1444849 1996 The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber total:202|5:60|4:74|3:59|2:8|1:1| 202 790 280 16 3 6 false false Fri Feb 13 20:18:39 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 14:15:06 -0800 2009 The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer,...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 20:45:17 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 11:43:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 14:35:36 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 22:26:33 -0800 2009
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