In this 2008 file photo Novelist Nicholson Baker poses outside his home in Berwick, Maine. His latest novel, "The Anthologist," is about a man putting together a volume on poetry can't figure out how to write the introduction. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)
A novelist muses on verse
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A man putting together a volume on poetry can't figure out how to write the introduction. As his main character struggles, novelist Nicholson Baker illuminates the art of verse.
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Nicholson Baker: author of "The Anthologist." He's also the author of many other works of fiction and nonfiction, including "Human Smoke."
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