Name: The Size of Thoughts
ISBN: 9780679776246

Nicholson Baker

A collection of essays covers topics ranging from the destruction of library card catalogs and model airplanes to clip art, metaphors, and the art of reading aloud.

Essays and Other Lumber

The Size of Thoughts

Christopher McCaffery

Some of these essays are entertaining, some genuinely interesting, some goofy, all overcome with the joy Nicholson Baker takes in his own weird, weird brain. Except for the closing essay on Lumber, which I anticipated as just the sort of performative, bizarre PoMo thing I enjoy, but which was in fact unfinishably dull. High points are a recipe for chocolate syrup, an essay on toenail clippers, and the long section on the demise of library card catalogues.

The Size of Thoughts Essays and Other Lumber