House of Holes

For Andrew Palmer, writing in The Paris Review, House of Holes "legitimizes and exalts our most personal and private sources of delight.

In the New Yorker Ian Crouch attested "it’s packed with dirty words, some familiar, others wonderfully original.

"[7] House of Holes was the third in a string of pornographic novels by Baker, following Vox and The Fermata, and the acclaim for it was not universal.

Writing in The Independent in 2011, Matt Thorne complained that "the purpose of this smutty gibberish isn't clear.

Baker does seem to capture what a world based only on the fulfilment of frustrated desire might be like, but while Vox and The Fermata were playfully erotic, there is something heavy-handed about this strange third volume.