Everyone who has ever had to evaluate anything will appreciate the opening of Nicholson Baker's new novel, "Traveling Sprinkler," in which the narrator dreams he has to review a cookbook, so he and ...

Nicholson Baker, poet of small accuracies, shows us how if you assemble enough of these small accuracies—the song you're humming, your anger at the war, your admiration for your lawn sprinkler—lo! and ...

In his new book “Traveling Sprinkler,” novelist Nicholson Baker tells the story of a 55-year-old poet’s obsession with electronic dance music, Debussy, and his ex girlfriend who works as a local NPR ...