“But the work that really drew me in,” writes Nicholson Baker in the New York Review of Books this week of his experience as a contributor to Wikipedia, “was trying to save articles from deletion. This became my chosen mission.”
Let’s see. Fighting to save obscure articles posted to an online “encyclopedia”; crusading to preserve ratty old newspapers in Double Fold; driven, in his fiction, to salvage the tiniest, most commonplace moments from the flux of living. It all adds up to… something. I have no idea if Mr. Baker is in therapy, or needs to be, but my analyst could do a lot with this material.
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