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    Baseless

    Nicholson Baker talked about Project Baseless, a secret 1950s Air Force program to develop chemical and biological weapons, and the challenges faced by researchers trying to uncover governme…

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    By the Book

    Pamela Paul, Nicholson Baker, Walter Mosley, Ann Patchett, and Francine Prose talked about Ms. Paul’s anthology, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Ti…

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    Human Smoke

    Nicholson Baker talked about his book, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, which is a collection of previously published news items from the 1930s and 1940s…

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    A Tribute to John Updike

    A panel of fellow writers and friends talked about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike, who died on January 27, 2009, at the age of 76. Authors Nicholson Baker, who wrote a…

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