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Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these two groups, who have cooperated more closely in this domain than in any other.

Nicholson Baker

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Nicholson Baker
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 7
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