3 December 2020 Nicholson Baker So I really began as a failed poet – although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
3 December 2020 Nicholson Baker Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.
3 December 2020 Nicholson Baker When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
3 December 2020 Nicholson Baker I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren’t libelous or otherwise illegal.
