Novelist Nicholson Baker's new non-fiction tome, Human Smoke, details World War II through a series of wispy, "Gawker-like vignettes" of 100 to 200 words each. The New Republic's Anne Applebaum thinks that approach is crap.
'TNR' Mocks Author, Goes on Forever
11:20 AM on Sat May 10 2008
By ian spiegelman
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