The Writers Studio, featuring Nicholson Baker
Series: The Writers Studio
From: Abby Goldstein
Length: 00:59:04
"Vanity Fair" calls Nicholson Baker "the best writer of our generation." The highly versatile and complex author of five novels, including the erotic masterpiece "Vox", Baker is the recipient of the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction for his "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper." His latest novel is called "A Box of Matches." This program is part of The Writers Studio, a 7 part series recorded in 2003/2004 at Theatre Three in Dallas, Texas with a live audience, who were able to ask questions during the event.
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"Vanity Fair" calls Nicholson Baker "the best writer of our generation." The highly versatile and complex author of five novels, including the erotic masterpiece "Vox", Baker is the recipient of the National Book Critic Circle Award for nonfiction for his "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper." His latest novel is called "A Box of Matches." This program is part of The Writers Studio, a 7 part series recorded in 2003/2004 at Theatre Three in Dallas, Texas with a live audience, who were able to ask questions during the event.
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Review of The Writers Studio, featuring Nicholson BakerThoughtful, wide-ranging interview about all manner of stuff: writing, reading, aging, reviews ("getting reviewed by the NYT"s Michiko Kakutami is like having your liver removed without anesthesia"...), influences, early work, later work. Baker is a good talker and the host is an easy conversationalist. Baker does several readings and suprisingly the Q and A isn't bad. Among other things, Nicholson Baker is a prose stylist of the small, the mundane, the tiny. After listening to this hour you feel a certain kind of inspiration to go outside and look around and see if you've been missing anything. |
Broadcast History
Originally broadcast in April and May of 2004 on KERA 90.1.
Timing and Cues
There is one :60 second internal break at 29 minutes into the program with a music bed provided.
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Review of The Writers Studio, featuring Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker's genuine claim that his thoughts are nothing but pedestrian seems ludicrous when you hear him read excerpts from his books. Although he studies the everyday with microscopic vision he does so with a poet's sensibility. His ability to evoke profundity from a box of envelopes, starched shirtsleeves and an ant farm leaves you breathless. When you hear him discuss his thought process you can only hope to access a smidgen of his vision the next time you clean the fuzz off your phonograph needle, or lace a shoe. This interview goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. Baker's accessibility, the effective moderators and the great Q&A from the audience leave you wanting to read all of his books, wanting to see the universe as he sees it. Play this wherever you have a free hour.