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Nicholson Baker's prose

Posted by Christopher Shea  July 29, 2009 10:18 AM
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I had precisely the same reaction as soon as I came across the word "spinnakered" in the Nicholson Baker piece that I blogged about yesterday. Also "pheromonal." The guy is good. (Forget what you hear from Leon Wieseltier or Anne Applebaum.)

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Joshua Rothman is a graduate student and Teaching Fellow in the Harvard English department, and an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He teaches novels and political writing.
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