B & Me

“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” ( Salon )—and a nod to U and I , Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review . Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker wrote U and I , the fretful and handwringing—but also groundbreaking—tale of his literary relationship with John Updike. U and I inspired a whole sub-genre of en