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Up to 6th Night...it&#39;s enjoyable...Barth has taken his chatty, po-mo speechifying into an interesting new place. Instead of outright Scherherazade or "the she...
3 Apr 29, 2004
3:14 pm

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From Publishers Weekly: In Barth's latest collection, one of his stand-ins, C.P. Mason, a writer/teacher who is trying to fit a whole short story around a...
2 Apr 19, 2004
10:09 pm

agrimorfee
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... This article was sent to you by someone who found it on SFGate. The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: ...
2 Apr 19, 2004
9:52 pm

barbara schmidt
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I have been translating "Chimera", come across some difficulties. Need help. Anyone who has read this very book would like lend me a hand, I would be very...
1 Apr 1, 2004
11:21 pm

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FYI. See also 'Section 5., Recordings&#39; here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/message/1963 ... ________________________________________________ Don't...
3 Mar 14, 2004
9:32 pm

Mark Brawner
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should any of you wish to get some older copies of the books of John Barth, I run a cyberbookstore called 'Maybooks&#39;, and I have made a point of collecting ...
1 Mar 14, 2004
12:35 am

stevenallenmay
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I just found an uncorrected proof of TBTNN on alibris. 4/9/2004 be damned. ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail!...
8 Mar 3, 2004
6:46 pm

Mark Brawner
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Damn, I love when I stumble upon a great book at the library, and now I will share it with you. This novel is a bawdy, romantic parody of the Kamasutra,...
3 Mar 2, 2004
10:21 pm

Mark Brawner
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Here's a galley/advance review copy/uncorrected proof/whateverthehellyoucallit of the new one for a little over five bucks, if you're interesed. ...
1 Feb 12, 2004
12:43 am

Mark Brawner
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I just heard from Houghton Mifflin that JB will not be touring this year in support of TBTNN. Ah well. ________________________________________________ Don't...
1 Feb 11, 2004
10:46 pm

Mark Brawner
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Info page for TBTNN: http://tinylink.com/?VMuctAIiwR ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail! http://www.zipmail.com/...
1 Jan 24, 2004
3:25 pm

Mark Brawner
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I guess I bungled my attempt to be clever. That should have been, of course, "What to Do UNTIL the Tape Comes." Okay, go back to sleep. On Wed, 31 Dec 2003...
7 Jan 19, 2004
9:55 pm

Mark Brawner
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I just noticed, FWIW, that the cover art for _The Book of Ten Nights and a Night_ is now accessible: ...
3 Jan 19, 2004
5:43 pm

Mark Brawner
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I would like to use the following John Barth quote in a film. Does anyone know who to contact for copyright information or if I can just use it? Thank you....
9 Jan 16, 2004
10:12 pm

Mark Brawner
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Hey, looky what I just found: Poets & Writers Magazine THE LITERARY LIFE "All Trees Are Oak Trees.?" Introductions to Literature By John Barth "Writers who...
2 Jan 15, 2004
12:41 am

Krzysztof Majer
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Oulipo: Existentialismos, John Barth, Georges Perec http://www.waggish.org/archives/001141.html John Barth on Calvino and Borges ...
2 Dec 20, 2003
4:24 pm

Mark Brawner
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He-ey, Looks like Xmas is just round the bend and I finally have time to drop a few lines. What better moment to do that than today, in fact, when I hear that ...
5 Dec 19, 2003
11:28 pm

agrimorfee
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in addition, there is an article about John in the latest Poets & Writers magazine - and as it turns out - an ad for our press on page 115, strange how that...
1 Dec 19, 2003
4:11 am

s - a - m
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... sixteenth book and third collection of stories, which gathers for the first time in one volume stories previously published in various journals. Dang, it...
4 Dec 18, 2003
8:25 pm

agrimorfee
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"John Barth has a new story collection called <Ten Nights and a Night> from Houghton Mifflin in April..." ... ________________________________________________ ...
2 Dec 17, 2003
11:40 pm

Mark Brawner
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I have read the archives. I found a first edition of JB's "Lost in the Funhouse" and was drawn to it because of the subtitle - Fiction for Print, Tape, Live...
2 Dec 11, 2003
5:11 pm

Mark Brawner
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I have only recently fallen under the word-spell of John Barth. I am glad to have found this group, greetings s - a - m...
3 Dec 10, 2003
6:14 pm

Mark Brawner
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of Frank Zappa's death. Global holiday declared; _Joe's Garage_ listening parties made mandatory. Pretty quiet around here....
1 Dec 4, 2003
6:03 pm

Mark Brawner
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What a great little anecdote-oid. ... From: UGA English Department Discussion List [mailto:PARKHA-L@...] On Behalf Of Sam Prestridge Sent:...
1 Nov 25, 2003
10:30 pm

Mark Brawner
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Sorry I didn't look, nor acknowledge the anniversary. This place has been so dead, it's not even funny; and I am partially to blame for that. ;(...
1 Nov 17, 2003
6:26 pm

agrimorfee
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Hi, all! What would you say is or was a true MODERNIST characteristic in John Barth`s works? A few critics have argued that in Barth`s works there are/have...
4 Nov 7, 2003
8:32 pm

Martin Skidmore
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From their homepage: "Starting today you can find books at Amazon.com based on *every word* inside them, not just on matches to author or title keywords....
1 Oct 24, 2003
5:32 pm

Mark Brawner
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Has anybody done any work on Bray's lecture in Giles Goat-Boy? Or, any philosophers out there might like to look it up and try nutting it out. I'm wondering...
2 Oct 15, 2003
4:51 pm

J.M. Hall
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hi.... what i want to criticize is JB's freedom in dealing with arab and islamic culture. i mean he is takeing for granted that arabs are the way they are...
3 Oct 9, 2003
7:27 pm

Martin Skidmore
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There will be a quiz tomorrow. ________________________________________________ Don't E-Mail, ZipMail! http://www.zipmail.com/...
7 Oct 8, 2003
9:04 pm

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