{"id":692,"date":"2014-10-17T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2014-10-17T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T23:29:28","slug":"nicholson-baker-the-next-writer-of-james-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Nicholson Baker: The next writer of James Bond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/N-Baker-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-695\" alt=\"N-Baker-web\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/N-Baker-web.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>Nicholson Baker is a novelist, humorist, and social critic. His most recent release is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nicholson-Baker\/e\/B000AQ0798\/\">The Paul Chowder Chronicles<\/a>, which brings together two novels about Paul Chowder: <em>The Anthologist<\/em> and <em>Traveling Sprinkler<\/em>. Baker received a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 for his \u00a0Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, a nonfiction look at the decline of paper-based materials being archived by libraries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3\">We talked about whether<\/a>\u00a0there will be more Paul Chowder books (yes), whether Baker worries about how people confuse him for his character (no), and what genre he&#8217;d really like to write (hint: it&#8217;s in the post&#8217;s title).<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson Baker will be appearing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thurberhouse.org\/nicholson-baker.html\">Thurber House Evenings with Authors<\/a> on October 21. Get your <a href=\"http:\/\/thurberhouse.org\/nicholson-baker-evenings-with-authors.html\">tickets now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8403\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-692-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=692-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2014-10-17N_Baker.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholson Baker is a novelist, humorist, and social critic. His most recent release is The Paul Chowder Chronicles, which brings together two novels about Paul Chowder: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler. 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