The Way the World Works - Brossura

Baker produces reveries and daydreams that are totally under the control of their author -Financial Times

[Baker] writes subtly and eloquently... The style is warm, technical and attractively lucid - Daily Telegraph

Baker looks for the world in a grain of sand and the more you read him, the better a place that seems to start looking - The Observer

In this collection, as much as in his novels, Baker proves himself one of the great miniaturists working today - Independent on Sunday

Nicholson Baker is rare among writers in that you are happy to read whatever he writes irrespective of the subject - The Glasgow Herald

Nicholson Baker has caused outrage and sensation with much of his work

"The equivalent of a magnum opus by most other American writers...Baker gets it from the opening and never flags" --The Guardian

Miniaturist is the world customarily applied to Nicholson Baker, and it seems spot-on for the introductory essays in this glittering collection... we should be gratified that such an intelligent, articulate stylist is applying himself to the essay form -- Independent

A superb collection of essays by one of the most interesting writers around -- --Evening Standard

Nicholson Baker was born in 1957 and attended the Eastman School of Music and Haverford College. He is the author of several novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox and The Fermata, and House of Holes; and four works of non fiction, U and I, The Size of Thoughts, Double Fold (winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award), and Human Smoke. He lives in Maine.