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The Book Show #1104 - Nicholson Baker

By Joe Donahue

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-860002.mp3

Albany, NY – On this week's Book Show we welcome Nicholson Baker - known for bestselling novels Vox & The Fermata, and the non-fiction hit Human Smoke.

His latest is a book of prose about poetry entitled The Anthologist. Paul Chowder is a bit of a failure as a poet - but, he has been asked to write an introduction to a poetry anthology, and his writer's block causes his career and his relationship to falter.