30 May 2010
Nicholson Baker envies John Updike and wants to be his golf buddy. He wrote a book about it. It is a nice book to read if you like to hear details about the way a person thinks and the way he experiences his own memories, which I do. Baker writes about wanting to write a long obituary essay after Updike's death. This essay he wants to publish in The New Yorker. Being able to publish an essay about Updike in The New Yorker will mean that Nicholson Baker is close to being in league with Updike. I am not sure whether this is better than or not as good as having been Updike's golf buddy. Perhaps he says in the book. I don't remember. I read this a while back, and because Baker doesn't allow himself to glance at Updike's work while he is writing U and I, which is a memoir of a time when he was thinking a lot about Updike, I am not allowing myself to look back into Baker's book. I am feeling a little lazy today.
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Books I met: u and i, Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker envies John Updike and wants to be his golf buddy. He wrote a book about it. It is a nice book to read if you like to hear...
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