Lost in the Funhouse appears in a new anthology from Simon & Schuster called The Worst Years of Your Life. I can't really tell who the target market/audience...
Thank you Mark for updating us here. That is a great title: The Worst Years of Our Lives. Thanks to your message I went and reread some of my favorite stories...
He uses the same phrase in Glossolalia and attributes it in the author note to, " Mme Alice LeBaron, who acquired some fame in 1879 from her exolalic...
Our man is getting some love from Edward Champion in this blog entry: http://www.edrants.com/?p=6583 Nice to see, although it looks like he has plenty of Barth...
Barth has a piece in the forthcoming 'Best American Short Stories 2007 (Oct. 10 release), that I've never heard of: 'Toga Party' originally published in...
New member Machiel asked, in his sign-up email (and I thought I'd pass ... sack": "why then perchance I'll come upon you SACK A SACK as did ...," ... I gather...
Yeh, I thought it also "body on body", but I could nowhere find that explanation within the very big lot of dictionaries I have, so I thought it must be...
... The bit that you quote is indeed a male speaking to a male (Burlingame to Eb), but there is another, earlier, use of the phrase when Bertrand speaks of...
Hallo Mark. First an apology that I didn't respond on your last e-mail. My car is stolen and we were so upset, that I didn't think on writing you. So the next...
A colorful fellow calling himself Muffy St Bernard has been working his way* front-to-back through the Barth oeuvre and is blogging on it (it's set up to...
... Oooooh... He's very good... though there's much of it I don't (necessarily) agree with. Must study this character a little longer. But not tonight. I...
Stephen King (Editor of this year's Best American Short Stories) has an essay in the New York Times Sunday Book Review: "There isn't a single one in this book...
The Hopkins Review is back, and our guy has pieces in the first two issues: "The first issue, Winter 2008, contains fiction by Max Apple, Donald Barthelme,...
"[The Missouri Review's] winter, 2000 issue ... featured excerpts of classic rejections from the Knopf files, along with Knopf readers' (Judith Jones, for...
... Will do. I'll scan it and make it available. So you studies under him at Buffalo, eh? Give us some . . .well, stories! Regards, Mark...
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Reminder from: johnbarth Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnbarth/cal Group Founding Anniversary! Wednesday November 14, 2007 All Day (This event...
Congratulations to all group members on this day! Am I on the the right spot to the chat room? I am living now with Sabbatical and Giles read in the summer,...
... I think it's probably neither. We had a handful of garrulous ones back in the day that would stir the pot and get things moving, but they've since either...
I think it is the eternal time problem, but seriously speaking this dormant stage is not particular to this group and almost all the yahoo groups that I had...
Yes and it's good there aren't any advertisements instead -like in some other groups. Mehdy, how is your translation of "D"and the article on margines? (trying...
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Hi Elena I finished translating that book and I am waiting for the Ministry of Culture to issue a printing permit for that. I didn't write that article, and...
Thank you for the birthday wishes. It was a fun day spent with family, replete with black balloons declaring me "over the hill", and so on (my having turned...