{"product_id":"9781416572473","title":"The Way the World Works","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Nicholson Baker, “who writes like no one else in America” (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e), has assembled his best nonfiction writing over the last fifteen years, a trove of original and provocative pieces.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNicholson Baker, who “writes like no one else in America” (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Way the World Works\u003c\/i\u003e, Baker’s second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles us, what eases our pain, and what brings us joy. Baker moves from political controversy to the intimacy of his own life, from forgotten heroes of pacifism to airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, David Remnick, Joseph Pulitzer, the \u003ci\u003eOED\u003c\/i\u003e, and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola. He writes about kite string and about the moment he met his wife, and he surveys our fascination with video games while attempting to beat his teenage son at \u003ci\u003eModern Warfare 2\u003c\/i\u003e. In a celebrated essay on Wikipedia, Baker describes his efforts to stem the tide of encyclopedic deletionism; in another, he charts the rise of e-readers; in a third he chronicles his Freedom of Information lawsuit against the San Francisco Public Library. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough all these pieces, many written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, Baker shines the light of an inexpugnable curiosity. \u003ci\u003eThe Way the World Works \u003c\/i\u003eis a keen-minded, generous-spirited compendium by a modern American master.","brand":"Nicholson Baker","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":52232513454240,"sku":"9781416572473","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7e863c13-e902-4544-b9ce-926805c766e2.jpg?v=1738369055","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781416572473","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}