Reviews
eoeIf only more of the literary world worked the way Baker does. . . . You cannot deny the courage of the writer. . . . Baker is singular.e, eoeMr. Baker is a wise and amiable cultural commentator worth listening to. . . .[his] prose is polished, witty . . . his essays are always provocative and entertaining.e, eoe[A] winning new book. . . . This singular writer . . . can mount an argument skillfully and deliver an efficient conclusive kick.e, Baker's new essay collection, The Way the World Works , is always absorbing, merging his interest in solid, tangible objects with his devotion to the life of the mind. . . . simply dazzling., Baker looks at the world around us in a way that is not only artful and entertaining but instructive., eoeWhat these works share is a sense that how we think, our idiosyncratic dance with both experience and memory, defines who we are.e, [A] winning new book. . . . This singular writer . . . can mount an argument skillfully and deliver an efficient conclusive kick., eoeA fundamentally radical author . . . you can never be sure quite where Baker is going to take you. . . . [He] is an essayist in the tradition of GK Chesterton and Max Beerbohm, writing winning fantasies upon whatever chance thoughts may come into his head.e, Mr. Baker is a wise and amiable cultural commentator worth listening to. . . . [his] prose is polished, witty . . . his essays are always provocative and entertaining., eoeNicholson Baker is such a swell, smart writer that he rarely - maybe never - tips his hand.... In Baker's view the mundane, closely enough observed, may be the skate key to the sublime.e, eoeBaker's new essay collection, The Way the World Works , is always absorbing, merging his interest in solid, tangible objects with his devotion to the life of the mind. . . . simply dazzling.e, Nicholson Bakeris such a swell, smart writer that he rarely-maybe never-tips his hand. . . . In Baker's view, the mundane, closely enough observed, may be the skate key to the sublime., Nicholson Baker is such a swell, smart writer that he rarely - maybe never - tips his hand.... In Baker's view the mundane, closely enough observed, may be the skate key to the sublime., A fundamentally radical author . . . you can never be sure quite where Baker is going to take you. . . . [He] is an essayist in the tradition of GK Chesterton and Max Beerbohm, writing winning fantasies upon whatever chance thoughts may come into his head., Baker writes with appealing charm. He clowns and shows off rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things., eoeExhilarating . . . Eye-opening . . . Baker continues his project of bringing new dimensions and idiosyncrasies to the personal essay, which he is devoted to reviving and reinventing.e, eoeBaker is one of the most beautiful, original and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades . . . and takes a kind of mad scientist's delight in the way things work and how the world is put together.e, Mr. Baker is a wise and amiable cultural commentator worth listening to. . . . [his] prose is polished, witty . . . his essays are always provocative and entertaining., What these works share is a sense that how we think, our idiosyncratic dance with both experience and memory, defines who we are., Mr. Baker is a wise and amiable cultural commentator worth listening to. . . .[his] prose is polished, witty . . . his essays are always provocative and entertaining., Baker is one of the most beautiful, original and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades . . . and takes a kind of mad scientist's delight in the way things work and how the world is put together., If only more of the literary world worked the way Baker does. . . . You cannot deny the courage of the writer. . . . Baker is singular., Exhilarating . . . Eye-opening . . . Baker continues his project of bringing new dimensions and idiosyncrasies to the personal essay, which he is devoted to reviving and reinventing., eoeBaker looks at the world around us in a way that is not only artful and entertaining but instructive.e
