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The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker, who writes like no one else in America (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. The Way the World Works, Baker's second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine , The Way the World Works
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  • The Way the World Works
  • Written by author Nicholson Baker
  • Published by Simon & Schuster, 8/7/2012
  • Nicholson Baker, who "writes like no one else in America" (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. The Way the World Works, Baker's second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine
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Authors

Foreword ix

Life

String 1

Coins 9

How I Met My Wife 13

La Mer 15

Why I Like the Telephone 19

What Happened on April 29, 1994 21

Sunday at the Dump 23

Writing Wearing Earplugs 28

One Summer 29

Reading

Thorin Son of Thráin 43

Narrow Ruled 46

Inky Burden 56

No Step 59

I Said to Myself 66

Defoe, Truthteller 75

From A to Zyxt 84

The Nod 89

David Remnick 94

Libraries and Newspapers

Truckin' for the Future 105

If Libraries Don't Do It, Who Will? 128

Reading the Paper 135

The Times in 1951 141

Take a Look at This Airship! 149

Sex and the City, Circa 1840 159

Technology

Grab Me a Gondola 169

The Charms of Wikipedia 188

Kindle 2 206

Papermakers 227

Google's Earth 236

Steve Jobs 242

War

Why I'm a Pacifist 247

We Don't Know the Language We Don't Know 275

Painkiller Deathstreak 287

Last Essay

Mowing 311

Acknowledgments 315


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