A quirky and compelling writer, Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of seven novels (among them The Mezzanine and Vox), as well as three works of nonfiction, including the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper and Human Smoke. In Baker's new novel, The Anthologist, the importance of poetry in everyday life is steadily revealed as the protagonist writes an introduction to a new anthology of poems.