Vintage Baker

by Nicholson Baker

  Fiction/0-679-72576-8

  Room Temperature

  Nicholson Baker transforms a young father’s feeding-time reverie into a dazzling catalog of the minutiae of domestic love.

  Fiction/0-679-73440-6

  The Size of Thoughts

  In this irresistible first collection of essays Nicholson Baker measures the precise circumference of thoughts. The result is a provocative and often hilarious celebration of the neglected aspects of our experience, by a writer of stunning intelligence and inimitable charm.

  Nonfiction/essays/0-679-77624-9

  U and I

  Baker constructs a splendid edifice that is at once a tribute to John Updike and a disarmingly, often hilariously frank self-examination—a work that lays bare both the pettiest and the most exalted transactions between writers and their readers.

  Literature/Nonfiction/0-679-73575-5

  Vox

  Vox remaps the territory of sex—sex solitary and telephonic, lyrical and profane, comfortable and dangerous. It is an erotic classic that places Nicholson Baker firmly in the first rank of major American writers.

  Fiction/0-679-74211-5

  Coming in Summer 2005

  Checkpoint

  Meet Jay.

  Meet Ben.

  Jay has summoned his old friend Ben to a hotel room not far from the nation’s capitol. During the course of an afternoon, they will share a delicious lunch and will crack open a bottle of wine from the hotel minibar. They will chat about everything from Ben’s new camera to Iraq to the unfortunate fate of a particular free-range chicken. And Jay will explain to Ben exactly why and how he is planning to commit a murder that will change the course of history.

  Fiction/1-4000-7985-3

  VINTAGE READERS

  Authors available in this series

  Martin Amis

  Nicholson Baker

  James Baldwin A. S. Byatt

  Willa Cather

  Sandra Cisneros

  Joan Didion

  Richard Ford

  Langston Hughes

  Barry Lopez

  V. S. Naipaul

  Alice Munro

  Haruki Murakami

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Michael Ondaatje

  Oliver Sacks

  Representing a wide spectrum of some of our most significant modern and contemporary authors, the Vintage Readers offer an attractive, accessible selection of writing that matters.