Nicholson Baker: Podcast Interviews

Nicholson Baker

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Essayist, Novelist

3 Interviews

Nicholson Baker's Interviews

Alexander Heffner & Nicholson Baker • 10 Mar 2021 • EN

Did Gain-of-Function Research Cause the Pandemic?

"The Lab-Leak Hypothesis" author Nicholson Baker discusses whether high-risk experimental research might have created the global COVID-19 catastrophe.

Andrew Keen & Nicholson Baker • 16 Jul 2020 • EN

Nicholson Baker: What Secrets Do the Freedom of Information Act Hold?

Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and six works of nonfiction, including The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hermann Hesse Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives i

Christopher Lydon & Nicholson Baker • 17 Dec 2013 • EN

Nicholson Baker Writes a Protest Song

Songs are no joke. I’m not being ironic with these songs. I’ve never done anything in which I feel more vulnerable to my own failings and inadequacies. Nicholson Baker in conversation with Chris Lydon in Boston, October, 2013 Nicholson Baker‘s voice has a blushing transparency that will make you lean in here. He’s made