Exactly How Many Holes Are in Nicholson Baker’s ‘House of Holes’??

Choire Sicha
The Awl
Published in
1 min readDec 15, 2010

We have just been alerted to the fact of an upcoming book: “Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes is gleefully provocative, off-the-charts sex novel that is unlike anything you’ve read.” I suppose we can test that assertion on August 9, 2011, when Simon & Schuster drops that sex bomb. First he destroys our conception of World War II, now he’s going to make us rethink how we put things inside of other things? SOME NERVE.

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