Novelist Nicholson Baker on the Banality of Idle Thought.
Writer Nicholson Baker. His debut novel, "The Mezzanine," published in 1987, received enthusiastic critical reviews. Though thin on plot - man breaks shoelace, goes to CVS on his lunch hour to replace it, rides escalator back to work - the novel was praised for the unexpected magnitude of the hero's everyday thoughts, and for the way Baker's technique examined the minutiae that form the often undocumented daily texture of our lives. (originally broadcast on 3/24/89).
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