"House of Holes": Mini-Excerpt #1

“May I ask who you are?” she asked politely.

The hands stopped. “I am Alexander Borodin, the very famous Russian composer,” said the voice.

Luna looked back at Chuck, who had begun playing with her hair. “But Alex,” she said, “didn’t you write the Polovetsian Dances something like a hundred and twenty, hundred and thirty years ago?”

“Yes, but I’m here now to play your leg like the keys of a piano keyboard,” he said.

Chuck kissed her forehead. “Just enjoy it.”

“Okay, carry on,” Luna said.

Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes

will be released on August 9th. It’s… like this.