Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment -- I need to see how they dance.' 'Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine -- with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets.

He is hard at work on his autobiography 'The Fermata. All of the Updike quotations used are presented as coming from memory alone and many are inaccurate with correct versions and Baker's (later) commentary on the inaccuracy given in brackets. ' It proves in the telling to be a very provocative funny and altogether morally confused piece of work.

Nicholson Baker (born January 7 1957) is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization.