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Nicholson Baker

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Author and New Yorker contributor, Nicholson Baker chats with Michael traveling sprinklers in reality and metaphorically and how it figures into his latest book titled, The Traveling Sprinkler: a Novel.Baker extolls the virtues of Debussy's "Sunken Cathedral," smoking cigars, and muddying the color of the metaphorical water.