Any reader of Nicholson Baker’s fiction knows how delightfully unpredictable its course has been. Beginning with two “minimalist” novels (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), it was followed by two of heterosexual mischief (Vox, The Fermata), then a relaxation into quiet evocations of childhood, and meditative first-person musings (The Everlasting Story of Nory, A Box of Matches). […]

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