How Nicholson Baker learned to paint, without the help of Bob Ross. The celebrated novelist talks about his new book, ‘Finding a Likeness,’ and what his triumphs and failures with a paintbrush ...

“The Magic Paintbrush,” now available in bookstores and online under Random House’s Crown Books for Young Readers imprint, is intended as the first work in a platform-spanning franchise that ...

Baker is survived by Couch, whom he married in July 2015; ... "Cliff just had a way of taking the paintbrush and making everything come alive." Special to the Democrat-Gazette .