Audio interview with Robert Coover
rich
richard.romeo at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 10:57:14 CDT 2006
it is his first book and a fairly straightfoward effort. coover said he had
to write a "normal" book before he subverted the notion of what fiction
could do it in later works.
not sure we need another book about religious fundamentalism/cults
rich
On 10/12/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's truly surprising... That must be his debut novel, which I
> unfortunately haven't read. Although I understand next to nothing about
> baseball I really loved 'The Universal Baseball Association', as well as
> his
> collection 'Pricksongs and Descants' and the perverse and hilarious 'Briar
> Rose'. 'The Public Burning' is one of the books waiting for me in a long
> queue, and the release of AtD sort of pushed forward the date of our
> meeting. From what I've heard 'The Public Burning' was a scandalous book
> for
> its time and Coover had difficulties in publishing it.
>
>
> >From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> >To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> >CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: Re: Audio interview with Robert Coover
> >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:45:07 -0400
> >
> >thx for the link
> >
> >I heard that Coover is writing a sequel to Origin of the Brunists which
> >surprises me
> >
> >rich
> >
> >
> >On 10/11/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Should become available online pretty soon
> >>
> >>http://www.lannan.org/lf/rc/event/robert-coover/
> >>
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