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Nicholson Baker: How I Write

Fifty Shades of What?

The author of the new novel Traveling Sprinkler talks about Fifty Shades of Grey, Wikipedia, and writing in the car.

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Ulf Andersen

NC: Where did you grow up?

NB: We moved from New York City to Rochester, New York, when I was 2. I went to public schools there and rode my bike a lot, and then I spent a year at the Eastman School of Music on Main Street, where I...

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