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The Size of Thoughts 

Essays and Other Lumber 

by

Nicholson Baker

The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber

(1996)
A non fiction book by

Nicholson Baker

 

Novelist Nicholson Baker, author of The Mezzanine and Vox and called by Vanity Fair "the best American writer of his generation," here collects over a decade's worth of essays and journalism, including his controversial and highly praised 1994 article on the destruction of library card catalogs. His subjects range from the internals of the movie projector to the emotional tribulations of reading aloud; from the disappearance of hybrid punctuation to the mechanics of changing one's mind; from the lexicography of dirty talk to the manufacture of the fingernail clipper. There is a wedding address, a study of the not-so-random books that are used as props in mail-order catalogs, and a recipe. The final essay, which appears in print here for the first time, pursues through several centuries of prose and poetry the vagaries of the word lumber as a metaphor for the contents of the human mind, in what becomes in the telling a dazzlingly pedantic case study of the fanaticism of scholarship and the beauty that can reside within a piece of ordinary language.
 
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Hardback Editions

April 1998 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0517302055Title: Size of Thoughts
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 0-517-30205-5 / 978-0-517-30205-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
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March 1996 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0701163011Title: The Size of Thoughts
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 0-7011-6301-1 / 978-0-7011-6301-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
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March 1996 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0679439323Title: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 0-679-43932-3 / 978-0-679-43932-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House
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Paperback Editions

February 1997 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0679776249Title: The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 0-679-77624-9 / 978-0-679-77624-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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January 1997 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0099579715Title: The Size of Thoughts
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
ISBN: 0-09-957971-5 / 978-0-09-957971-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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1996 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0015HOG5MTitle: The Size of Thoughts : Essays & Other Lumber
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
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January 1994 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001WBPY7UTitle: Size of Thoughts
Author(s): Nicholson Baker
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