Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker

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Nicholson Baker's Interviews

What a treat! First, Jacke talks to Nicholson Baker, an author he's been reading for the past three decades, about Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art, Baker's deeply personal account of his journey learning how to paint for the first time, and a meditation on the power of art in times of crisis. Then

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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.

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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

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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

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