@nicholsonbaker8

New book: “Finding a Likeness.” On break from X/Twitter. Married, two children. Instagram: nicholsonbaker. https://xitter.cf/t.co/e3emSyuQqP.

 Maine, USA
Joined September 2016
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Gaza’s Libraries: A Chronicle of Erasure Book by book, shelf by shelf—centuries of Gaza’s memory are being reduced to ash. 🧵Scroll down for a devastating inventory of destruction: each post documents a library or museum erased:
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Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares in Al Jazeera: "Amid Israel’s shocking brutality in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, a small window of hope has nonetheless emerged." aje.io/20h9wz via @AJEnglish

The UN can put the Middle East on a decisive path towards peace this summer

The June 2025 UN Conference on Palestine can be the long-awaited turning point for the region.

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penguinpress@penguinpress13 Dec 2024
Top holiday recs from @nytimes including @nicholsonbaker8's Finding a LIkeness! "A beautiful experiment in an alien medium, from a writer like no other... It would make a great holiday gift." nytimes.com/2024/12/12/books…

Our Book Critics on Their Year in Reading (Published 2024)

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.”

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penguinpress@penguinpress11 Dec 2024
A great review from @TheTLS for @nicholsonbaker8's book, Finding a Likeness: "It is a collection that insists on the value of observational practice." the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-ar….

Nicholson Baker’s memoir of learning to draw and paint

Nicholson Baker’s memoir of learning to draw and paint

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Ben Street likes my book! So happy about this
The TLS@TheTLS7 Sep 2024
'When he first attempts observational drawing, sketching a view of the outside of his home, the result feels attentive and tender; it feels true.' Ben Street on Nicholson Baker’s memoir of learning to draw and paint the-tls.co.uk/arts/visual-ar…

Nicholson Baker’s memoir of learning to draw and paint

Nicholson Baker’s memoir of learning to draw and paint

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Elisa Gabbert@egabbert26 Jun 2024
If you know me you know I love books about books! I wrote about five of my favorites for @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/books/archiv…

Five Books for People Who Really Love Books

These five titles focus on the many connections we can form with what we read.

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Hi all - I'm going off X/Twitter and Instagram for a while to work on some things. Thank you very much for inspiration and encouragement!
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Loop drawing of my dad that I did on Father's Day a few years ago, along with one of his ink drawings, "Gardener's Chair."
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Happy Father's Day everybody! I'm celebrating with my beloved wife and grown children and their dear partners and our soulful dog and I'm feeling like the luckiest person in the world. Here are some fathers and children I drew for Reddit Gets Drawn.
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my daughter Alice in high school, wearing a new scarf
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(Drawn two years ago, when I was working on Finding a Likeness.)
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I'm rereading Jill Lepore's essay in "The Deadline" on Rachel Carson. The Atlantic rejected Carson's "The Sea Around Us" because it was "too poetic," Lepore writes. The New Yorker published it in 1951 in three parts; it was on the NY Times bestseller list for 86 weeks.
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(Pencil drawing after a 1961 Time Life photograph by Alfred Eisenstadt.)
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Carson couldn't have written Silent Spring, Lepore says, if she hadn’t spent decades wading in tide pools, thinking about how, “over the eons of time, the sea has grown ever more bitter with the salt of the continents.”
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Here's what I hope is a better version of this morning's drawing of Elisa Gabbert. "I have long felt I’m saving Moby-Dick for an unclear future experience, some contained and isolating context it deserves—a long sea voyage, my deathbed.” @egabbert #findingalikeness
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(after a photo in the Harvard Review) harvardreview.org/contributo…
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Michael Kimmelman @kimmelman, who wrote "The Intimate City." Pencil
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"Some people say rereading is the only reading, but sometimes Ithink first readings are the only rereading. This isn't total nonsense. First readings are when I pay the most attention, do the most doubling back. They're when I have the most capacity for shock and joy." @egabbert
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From "Any Person is the Only Self," 2024, Elisa Gabbert, p201
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"What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose knit & yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace any thing, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind." Virginia Woolf
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(sanguine pencil with some digital color added)
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