Abstract

This article explores the novelist and essayist Nicholson Baker's concern with the appreciation for, and preservation of, apparently trivial cultural ephemera. It establishes a thematic link between his nonfiction's campaigns against the destruction of such ephemera and his novels' overwhelming concern with unconsidered and trivial objects. It ultimately presents Baker's work as a sustained literary argument for a radically unhierarchical view of the world and the objects it contains.

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