The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
Novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker has had a small but well-deserved cult following since his first book,The Mezzanine, and the publication of the literary sex-bombVoxsaw his popularity mushroom.   Baker's great gift is a precision of observational detail that has a peculiarly incisive effect on a reader's consciousness.   Here is over a decade's worth of his essays and articles, including  the much-praised card catalogue article first published in theNew Yorker.The Size of Thoughts, through its varied forays into the realms of the overlooked, the underfunded, and the wrongfully scrapped, is a funny and thought-provoking book by one of the most distinctive stylists and thinkers of our time.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.