“One of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades” (New York Times), Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of nine unconventional novels and five works of nonfiction, including the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. His novels, including The Mezzanine, Vox, and House of Holes—a “blue-flaring plume of smut-talk” (New York Times) set in a sexual theme park—candidly explore the human psyche. In Traveling Sprinkler, Paul Chowder, from Baker’s The Anthologist, sets out to write a pop song or a protest song or both at once.

One of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists, Dara Horn received the National Jewish Book Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize for her 2003 debut novel In the Image. Her second novel, The World to Come, received the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and it was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2006. Horn’s other books include All Other Nights, selected as an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review, and the bestselling nonfiction e-book The Rescuer. Her new novel A Guide for the Perplexed is an adventure that intertwines stories from Genesis, medieval philosophy, and the perils on the digital frontier.

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