Nicholson Baker

Nicholson Baker

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Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.

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Francesca Albanese, pencil drawing: "Many Israelis I've engaged with keep on asking why--why there are no sanctions. Because of political alliances--but also because I do think many people have not understood how deeply entrenched we all are with Israeli crimes. And not only Israeli crimes-

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I talked to Jared Levy for Interview Magazine in 2013: "There’s something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don’t want to think of myself as a guy who’s written a bunch of books. The 26 letters distance us from our own hesitations--" www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/nich...

interviewmagazine.comNicholson Baker Navigates the Buffet - Interview MagazineBlurring the line between fiction and nonfiction is familiar territory for Nicholson Baker.
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"and they make us sound as if we know what we’re doing. We know grammar, we know prose, but actually we’re all just struggling in the dark, really." "Nicholson Baker Navigates the Buffet," by Jared Levy, September 16, 2013.

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"--to flatten, uproot, kill, starve, seize control and even establish Jewish settlements there. And thus, long before March 18, the entire Gaza Strip – cities and towns, residential neighborhoods, refugee camps, tilled fields, orchards – had become a wasteland over which death hovered constantly."

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“From 1964-1973, more than two million tons of ordnance were dropped on Laos. The intensity and scale of this bombing was equal to one planeload of bombs every eight minutes,  24 hours a day, for nine years.” www.halotrust.org/where-we-wor...

halotrust.orgLaos: destroying explosives, creating jobs | The HALO TrustThe HALO Trust’s work in Laos involves clearing unexploded ordnance, helping communities return to their homes, and enabling safer farming. Learn more.
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“The US has delivered 90,000 tons of bombs, guns, and other military equipment to Israel since October 7, 2023, to support the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to numbers from the Israeli Defense Ministry.” news.antiwar.com/2025/05/27/u...

news.antiwar.comUS Has Delivered 90,000 Tons of Weapons to Israel in Nearly 600 Days - News From Antiwar.comThe US has delivered 90,000 tons of bombs, guns, and other military equipment to Israel since October 7, 2023, to support the genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to numbers...
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Bernie giving a speech in May of last year: "No, Mr. Netanyahu, it is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in a little over six months your extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children."