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Besides the books, Baker has written essays and short stories for a number of periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, and Esquire. Several of these have been reprinted in his book, The Size of Thoughts.

Following is a partial list of these writings.

  • Baker Nicholson. [the title of this article is not known]. The New Yorker, April 23-30
  • Baker, Nicholson. Narrow Ruled. The American Scholar, Autumn, 2000, 5-8.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Deadline: A desperate plea to stop the trashing of America's historic newspapers. The New Yorker, July 24, 2000, 42-61 
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  • Baker, Nicholson. Grab Me a Gondola. The New Yorker, June, 1998, 64-68.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Weeds: A talk at the Library. In Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture. A City Lights anthology. Edited by James Brook, Chris Carlsson & Nancy J. Peters. San Francisco: City Lights, 1998. (p.35 - 50, with photographs).
  • Baker, Nicholson. China Pattern. New Yorker, 3 February 1997, 68-69.
  • Baker, Nicholson. The Author vs. the Library. New Yorker, 14 October 1996, 50ff.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Short Story Contest! And the Winner is...(The Remedy, begun by Nicholson Baker; finished by Robert Phillips.) The New York Times, Aug 18, 1996, Section 6, 38.
  • Baker, Nicholson. My Life as Harold. The New Yorker, June 26 / July 3, 1995, 92-93.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Books as Furniture. The New Yorker, June 12, 1995, 84-92.
  • Baker, Nicholson. From the index of first lines [poem]. The New Yorker, December 26, 1994 / January 2, 1995, 83.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Clip Art. The New Yorker, November 7, 1994, 165-167.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Infohighwaymen. The New York Times, Oct 18, 1994, Section A, 25.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Leading With the Grumper. The New York Review of Books, August 11, 1994, 3-5.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Subsoil. The New Yorker, June 27 / July 4, 1994, 67-70.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Lost Youth. London Review of Books, June 9, 1994, 6. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts (as A Novel by Alan Hollinghurst).
  • Baker, Nicholson. Discards. The New Yorker, April 4, 1994, 64-70+. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts (as Discards).
  • Baker, Nicholson. The Projector. The New Yorker, March 21, 1994, 148-153. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts (as The Projector).
  • Baker, Nicholson. Survival of the Fittest. New York Review of Books, 4 November 1993,17-21. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts (as The History of Punctuation).
  • Baker, Nicholson. Reading Aloud. The New Yorker, March 1, 1993, 92-94. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Exchange: Pennies for Thoughts. The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1991, 18ff.
  • Baker, Nicholson. War and Pieces. Esquire, March, 1990, 178-83. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts (as Model Aeroplanes).
  • Baker, Nicholson. Room Temperature. The New Yorker, January 8, 1990, 31-39. Later recycled in Room Temperature.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Precipitates. In Literary Outtakes, ed. Larry Dark. New York: Ballantine, Fawcett Columbine, 1990. 118-19. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts (as Mlack).
  • Baker, Nicholson. Men's Room. New Yorker,August 15, 1988, 22-27. Later recycled in The Mezzanine.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Shoelace. New Yorker, March 21, 1988, 30-32.Later recycled in The Mezzanine.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Pants on Fire. New Yorker, June 2, 1986, 28-29. Later recycled in The Mezzanine.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Rarity. Atlantic, October, 1984, 36ff. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Comma. Atlantic, August, 1984, 14. In revised and greatly expanded form, recycled within Room Temperature.
  • Baker, Nicholson. The Size of Thoughts. Atlantic, March, 1983, 32ff. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts.
  • Baker, Nicholson. K590. First published in Little Magazine. Reprinted in Best American Short Stories 1982, ed. John Gardner (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982) 116-23.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Changes of Mind. Atlantic, November, 1982, 45-46. Reprinted in The Size of Thoughts.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Playing Trombone. Atlantic Monthly, March, 1982, 39ff.
  • Baker, Nicholson. Snorkeling. New Yorker, December 7, 1981, 50-55.
  • Baker, Nicholson. The Harold Munger's Story. StoryQuarterly, Issue 13, 1981.