Me fellow Barth-heads: What? Ho! Eh, I've probably posted this link before, but I rediscovered it today and am looking for an excuse to drum up activity on...
I dunno if our Australian or Icelandic (or other) friends have had a chance to get their hands on the thing yet, but are any of you into the idea of discussing...
IYI, here's a transcription I did of David Foster Wallace's first appearance on the 'Bookworm' radio show (4/96, on the occasion of the release of Infinite...
Hello friends Taking note of the adj "Icelandic" I haste to remis that I unfortunately am not in the position of manhandling the tome as of yet. I'm in the...
On Thu, 6 May 2004 08:28:53 -0200 ... Oy. Well, that was awfully American of me, now, wasn't it? Oops, Mark ________________________________________________ ...
... Interest leans towards a YES. I finished the book, and I am happy to say that I am satisfied with it. It does merit a second look in a group setting...I...
I have a copy, which I've just started, and will be reviewing for The Modern Word, as soon as I get around finishing my review of the latest Paul Auster for...
... (Note, Mark, that one of my questions in that ... fishing ... I ... I would guess that JB might be still seething after the not-terribly- flattering...
On Fri, 7 May 2004 23:29:13 +1000 ... Good to hear from you, Blair (responding here rather tardily [you're right about it being quiet around here]), I look...
Hi everyone, I mentioned that The Modern Word would be running a competition with the The Book of Ten Nights and a Night as a prize, and the details are here: ...
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We would like to remind you of this upcoming event. John Simmons Barth born, 1930, Cambridge, Maryland. Date: Thursday, May 27, 2004 Time: All Day Celebrate!...
From Atlantic Unbound: "Hatchet Jobs, by Dale Peck (New Press). In these essays Peck rightly eviscerates contemporary "bombastic and befuddled" literary...
A pleasant surprise (I'm a subscriber), but lamely executed. -- Mark ================= Author of the week John Barth Back in the fall of 2001, when it "seemed...
I missed this, somehow. Maybe you did too... Enjoy, -Mark ============ 3/3/04 New Book Revisits Baltimore's Most Notorious Literary Tussle By John Barry It's...
Can anyone place this Barth quote? Is it from one of the books? An interview? "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." Thanks, Mark ...
Yes, as Mark noticed, I am once again attempting to keep my JB website up-to-date. I've gone through and weeded out a lot of the dead links and posted a little...
Slate has this dialogue between Jim Lewis and Jeffrey Eugenides on the legacy of Modernism (100th anniversary of Bloomsday having just passed). Pretty...
... I saw "Stone Reader" last year when it first came out. My girlfriend (a professor at a local college) and I went to see it at Kendall Square, then spent...
http://www.bookforum.net/barth_intvw.html Interesting, fairly wide-ranging interview. Mark will be pleased to finally see some mention of DFW by Barth: BF:...
... Thanks for sharing, Blair. JB seems so contradictory throughout, oh well, I guess it is his right. :) Why couldn't they find a picture of him from THIS...
I've never quite understood why venerable authors are interviewed like this; the whole 'up close and personal' thing is strange. Not sure it's interesting to...
I just finished "Giles Goat Boy" and have to admit I'm amazed. I loved the Joseph-Campbell-on-acid storyline, full of references to Occidental hero mythology...
... I have to read this again...in my 2 attempts I always got tired in its last quarter. Maybe I will "get" again? ... too ... Interesting. "TT" was what got...
... I admit it was an uphill battle, but it was very rewarding. The philosophical games and academic satire kept me interested when the plot started getting...
I don't think I've seen this particular Houghton Mifflin JB page before. I'd add a link to our site if I could figure out how to do so. Ah well... Any road,...
Well behind everyone else, I finally have my copy of "10 Nights" (courtesy of Amazon -- there's no Australian distributor as yet). Hmm. It's quite a while...
