'TNR' Mocks Author, Goes on Forever 2.92K ian spiegelman 05/10/08 10:20AM Filed to: Deep Thoughts Deep Thoughts The New Republic Blogs Blogging Top Novelist Nicholson Baker's new non-fiction tome, Human Smoke, details World War II through a series of wispy, "Gawker-like vignettes" of 100 to 200 words each. The New Republic's Anne Applebaum thinks that approach is crap.See for yourself!