{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6596d7f0482b2e001787188a/685199edcf39b4f29a8fda3d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Nicholson Baker","description":"<p>Nicholson Baker sits down with Jordan to discuss writing about the unsung pleasures and details of the world-- things like the way your mother cuts up a banana, or the advertisements in your favorite magazine. Things that \"live in this between area of noticing, they're part of the background of life.\" </p><p><br></p><p>Mentioned in the episode:</p><ul><li>Nicholson's book about WWII, Human Smoke</li><li>\"Sock (Object Lessons)\" by Kim Adrian</li><li>\"The Lab Leak Hypothesis,\" New York Magazine</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Nicholson Baker</strong>&nbsp;has written seventeen books, including&nbsp;<em>The Mezzanine, Vox, Human Smoke, The Anthologist,&nbsp;</em>and<em>&nbsp;Baseless—</em>also an art book,&nbsp;<em>The World on Sunday,</em>&nbsp;in collaboration with his wife Margaret Brentano.&nbsp;Several of his books have been&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;bestsellers, and he has won a National Book Critics Circle Award,&nbsp;a James Madison Freedom of Information Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Herman Hesse Prize.</p>","author_name":"Jordan Kisner"}