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Episode 55 | Nicholson Baker

Mar 15, 2023
49:34
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
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2
How Human Smoke Changed the Way I Read the Newspaper
04:44 • 4min
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3
The Importance of Open Stacks
08:53 • 3min
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4
The Role of Feminism in the Method of Assembling Human Smoke
11:51 • 5min
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5
The Randomness of Life
16:56 • 3min
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6
The Revisionist History of Churchill and FDR
20:17 • 3min
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7
The Quaker Response to Kristallnacht
23:01 • 3min
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8
The Pacifists and the War
26:26 • 3min
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9
The Failure of the Pacifists
29:16 • 3min
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10
The Rise and Fall of Hillaryism
32:06 • 3min
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11
The Power of Pointed Moments
35:29 • 2min
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12
The Politics of War
37:30 • 4min
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13
The Importance of Grief
41:51 • 6min
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14
The Importance of Human Smoke
47:40 • 2min
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Helen talks to writer Nicholson Baker about how history is written, and the continued relevance of his World War II book Human Smoke (2008). Baker is the author of numerous books, including Vox (1992) and The Mezzanine (1988) and was the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001.

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