Nicholson Baker: Traveling Sprinkler

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nicholson Baker, poet of small accuracies, shows us how if you assemble enough of these small accuracies, you've got a novel.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.9	Boots!
0:09.0	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.8	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.6	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.9	But where would we be without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.6	Nicholson Baker and I have been talking, is it, since what?
0:33.6	1991.
0:34.6	1991.
0:35.6	And I really, over the years, it's become so enjoyable for me to talk to him because, you know,
0:43.9	sometimes you come to understand a writer and I really feel that I've had a, you know,
0:52.0	a history of coming to understand Nicholson Baker.
0:55.8	He once seemed to me to be the most chimerical and eccentric writer imaginable,
1:03.4	and now instead I discover that I agree with him about nearly everything,
1:09.0	and that his work has managed something that writing
1:15.6	hasn't really managed to manage in our time, sincerity, earnestness, and better still,
1:23.6	earnestness that doesn't sound at first like earnestness so that people don't really
1:28.3	believe that Nicholson Baker believes these things eh well I I gosh I don't
1:36.1	know where to how to react to something so kind but I do think I do believe in
1:40.6	trying to tell the truth and that's a form of sincerity. I mean, you want to lay it
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