Nicholson Baker is the author of nine novels and four works of nonfiction, including Double Fold, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and House of Holes, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in Maine with his family.
"House of Holes is as funny as it is filthy and breathes new life
into the tired, fossilized conventions of pornography in a way that
suggests a deep, almost scholarly familiarity with the ancient
tropes." --Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine
"[Baker] escorts us through a surprisingly delightful session of
all things benevolently sexual--everything's consensual, of age and
legal, even if, in most cases, physically impossible. . . . We'd
recommend it to nearly everyone we know, and no one we don't."
--Tim Grobaty, Contra-Costa Times
"A joyful, almost Chaucerian book . . . Had Dr. Seuss been a
slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like
this." --Tom Bissell, GQ
"A permanent tribute to both the idiocy and surreal inventiveness
of sexual desire. . . . Attention must be paid. And laughter must
ensue--and rather a lot of it, too." --Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
"A sexy, disturbing, funny book . . . It may also challenge the
usual reader of literary novels with its sheer dazzling excess of
imagination." --Katie Roiphe, Slate
"About as fun and thoroughly unpretentious as literature gets."
--Michael Pucci, New York Journal of Books
"This is a funny, frisky novel that brings sexy back in a way that
Justin Timberlake never dreamed." --Mark Haskell Smith, Los Angeles
Review of Books
"Truly uproarious . . . Baker is one of the most consistently
enticing writers of our time . . . Readers with a fondness for
richly ridiculous diction, witty provocation and graphic sexual
prose that celebrates desire, frailty and the comedy of life will
not be disappointed." --Sam Lipsyte, front cover of the New York
Times Book Review
"Wild and hallucinatory . . . Every page offers something smart and
amusing . . . Full of fearlessness, cheerfulness, wit and brio."
--Meg Wolitzer, The Washington Post
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