NICHOLSON BAKER

National Book Critics Circle Award winning author Nicholson Baker will read from The Anthologist. The book centers on Paul Chowder, a poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry and is having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering, his girlfriend has left him, and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who deserve to feel sorry for themselves. He has also promised to reveal many wonderful secrets and tips and tricks about poetry, and it looks like the introduction will be a longer than he'd thought. What unfolds is a wholly entertaining and beguiling love story about poetry.