U and I: A True Story

Thank goodness for strange, little books. This one, almost 25 years old already (!) [Ed.: now almost 35], may not be for everyone, but if you have the smallest bit of fascination with how one writer thinks about another, you too might love this book, in which Baker, a young writer sometimes compared—not least by himself—to the great John Updike, holds up for examination his own fascination with the master the way you might look with wonderment on a large toenail you've just clipped off. (originally reviewed in 2015)