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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Books, Featured, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

Big Other Folio: Robert Coover

  The current folio is a Festschrift celebrating Robert Coover, commemorating his 89th birthday, yes, but also casting a critical…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

Robert Coover and Fairy Tales

By Brian Evenson   Since coming to CalArts, I’ve frequently taught a class I call Fairy Tales, Myths, and Fables.…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

He Can’t Remember, He’s No Longer Sure, Maybe

By Lance Olsen   I don’t remember much about the particular circumstances surrounding my stumbling upon Robert Coover’s Pricksongs &…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Books, Reading, Writing

On the Trail of Robert Coover’s Noir: A Novel

By Geoffrey Green   In the mail one day, I encountered the book––Noir, by Robert Coover. I placed it on…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Reading, Writing

Robert Coover: An Appreciation*

By Elisabeth Bell   And so it is that il gran signore, the distinguished emeritus professor from Charles City, Iowa,…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Review, Writing

The Alluring Obscurity of Noir: A Lesson Before Writing

By Ted Morrissey   It was my great fortune to grow up in a house that valued reading. And not…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

“The Illiterate, the Maimed”

By Louis Armand   As for anniversaries, THE END wins hands down. The Origin of the Brunists (1966) was Coover’s…

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February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From Robert Coover’s Open House

  Things are not happening as I thought they might. I enter the room, not the right one obviously, looking…

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