The Anthologist Captures All the Warmth, Wit, and Extraordinary Prose Style That Have Made Award-Winning Author Nicholson Baker an American Master
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FICTION MARCH 2010 Nicholson Baker National Bestseller H Publishers Weekly Review AThe Novel Anthologist The Anthologist captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose style that have made award-winning author Nicholson Baker an American master. The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder—a once-in-a- while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He’s having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering; his girlfriend, Roz, has recently left him; and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far worse and deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will be a little longer than he’d thought. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry: from Tennyson, Swinburne, and Yeats to the moderns (Roethke, Bogan, Merwin) to the staff of the New Yorker, what Paul reveals is astonishing and makes one realize how incredible important poetry is to our lives. At the same time, Paul barely manages to realize all of this Read by Nicholson Baker himself, and the result is a tenderly romantic, hilarious, and Category: Fiction inspired novel. Running Time: 7 hrs - Unabridged MARKETING Hardcover: 09/29/2009 (100,000 Simon & Schuster) Territory: US Only • One of the year’s most talked about novels On Sale Date: 03/22/2010 Trade 9781400116638 6 Audio CDs $24.99 • New York Times bestselling author of Vox Library 9781400146635 6 Audio CDs $49.99 • Previous book Double Fold won the 2001 National Book MP3 9781400166633 1 MP3-CD $19.99 Critics Circle Award PRAISE FOR THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker has published seven novels, including the New York Times “Baker pulls off an original and touching story, demonstrating bestseller Vox and The Mezzanine. his remarkable writing ability while putting it under a He has also written three works of H nonfiction, including Double Fold: microscope.” —Publishers Weekly Review Libraries and the Assault on Paper, which “A slyly intelligent rant about the crazy paradoxes of artistic won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001. careerism, and a casual and hilarious series of lessons on A regular contributor to the New Yorker and the New poetry.” —O: The Oprah Magazine York Review of Books, Baker lives in Maine. “A witty satire of literary culture.” —The Washington Post “Startlingly perceptive and ardent....Chowder is possibly the most appealing narrator Baker has invented.” —The New York Times Book Review “You become so engaged by Chowder’s narrative voice... that his loneliness and his valiant attempts to cope with despair creep up on you. When they do, you’re moved by this sincere, funny, sad man.” —Entertainment Weekly “Baker is a hybrid of past and future. His style has a meditative echo, like a man in a cave walking toward a light on the other end.” —Los Angeles Times Tantor a u d i o ALSO BY NICHOLSON BAKER FOR MORE INFORMATION Human Smoke Toll Free 877.782.6867 Tantor Audio ISBN 13: 9781400107896 Fax 888.782.7821 2 Business Park Road www.tantor.com Old Saybrook, CT 06475.