Size of Thoughts Essays and Other Lumber

"Disarmingly disguised as a collection of essays, 'The Size of Thoughts' is actually an ars poetica, Baker's defense...of his aesthetic: an ode to the 'transfiguration of the commonplace' through art: a jukebox of praise-songs for the discarded, the ignored, the overlooked..., small thoughts..., film projectionists, nail clippers..., nutty punctuation, American slang..., the accumulation of residue gathered at the bottom of computer-screen pages, defunct library card catalogs..., the word Lumber, books themselves. Baker adores the ephemeral, the irretrievably lost, which art can rescue....He notices things that no one else notices extraordinarily well. He writes heart-stopping sentences and he's hilarious--what more are we supposed to ask for?"Baker, Nicholson is the author of 'Size of Thoughts Essays and Other Lumber' with ISBN 9780679776246 and ISBN 0679776249.