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@cdarwin@c.im
2024-04-03 15:23:30

End of the Road:
John Barth
American postmodernist novelist dies aged 93
Along with William #Gass, Stanley #Elkins and other peers, #Barth was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and …

John Barth, American postmodernist novelist, dies aged 93
The author of Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and plot

@wvmierlo@zirk.us
2024-04-03 09:26:02

John Barth has died. I think his reputation is eclipsed by the likes of Brett Easton Ellis and Hunter S. Thompson. Barth though was a superb storyteller, one of the last greats to push the novel into new territory. Letters remains my favourite.
the…

John Barth, American postmodernist novelist, dies aged 93
The author of Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor was part of a wave of writers in the 1960s who challenged standards of language and plot

@wmclark@publishing.social
2024-04-03 02:29:23

John Barth, a Novelist Who Found Possibility in a ‘Used-Up’ Form - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/r

John Barth, a Novelist Who Found Possibility in a ‘Used-Up’ Form
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2024-04-04 12:25:48

RIP to John Barth, who was my favorite author when I was a kid (in a tight race with Joseph Heller). I loved “Giles Goat-Boy” and “The Sotweed Factor” — I read both multiple times in high school — and “Chimera,” which came out when I was in college. He was a really fun and inventive writer who left us a tall pile of good reading.
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NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
John Barth, innovative postmodernist novelist, dies at 93 John Barth, the playfully erudite author whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of fiction, died Tuesday. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242508803/john-barth-novelist-author-obituary?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

@benb@osintua.eu
2024-03-26 02:44:21

Author Serhiy Zhadan to enlist in National Guard: benborges.xyz/2024/03/26/autho

Author Serhiy Zhadan to enlist in National Guard
Writer and musician Serhiy Zhadan announced his plan to join the “Charter” brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard in a live broadcast on March 25. Zhadan is a renowned poet and novelist as well as the fr Source : kyivindependent.

@wmclark@publishing.social
2024-04-07 00:56:46

‘I’d love a scathing review’: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn | Percival Everett | The Guardian
theguardian.com/books/2024/apr

‘I’d love a scathing review’: novelist Percival Everett on American Fiction and rewriting Huckleberry Finn
His work triumphed at the Oscars, but the Booker-shortlisted author isn’t interested in acclaim. He talks to the Guardian about race, taking on Mark Twain and why there’s nothing worse than preaching to the choir

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2024-03-24 23:22:57

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoseYourselfWith
Novelist:
🎵 See Tha Sunset
#Novelist
open.spotify.com/track/0ca6lQS
novelistguy.bandcamp.com/track

@tml@urbanists.social
2024-02-14 07:30:43

Watching The Pigeon Tunnel on Apple TV . Great documentary about John le Carré based on interviews with him. But the interviewer’s broad American accent somehow doesn’t fit at all, sorry. Luckily it’s mostly le Carré speaking. theguardian.com/f…

The Pigeon Tunnel review – inside the extraordinary life of John le Carré
Errol Morris’s gentle interview allows the mesmeric writer to hold forth on how his relationship with dodgy dad Ronnie informed his life as a spy and novelist

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2024-02-13 22:45:25

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Letters to the Overrated and the Underrated
Ian Sansom pens imaginary missives to late Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w1z3

@paul@social.van.buu.re
2024-03-06 20:15:16

What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa | Democracy Now!
“And, you know, what we’re hearing on the ground is surreal. It’s dystopic. What I witnessed personally in Rafah and in some of the middle areas is incomprehensible. And I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that.”

What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa
We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. “What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society,” says Abulhawa. “What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that.”

@tml@urbanists.social
2024-03-08 12:41:03

1922: The year the #modern begin.
“On the 18th of May, 1922, the British translator and novelist Sidney Schiff hosted a dinner party at the Majestic Hotel in Paris. 40 guests were invited in all, but there were four guests in particular that Schiff wanted to bring together to generate dinner party chat. They were Igor

‎The Rest Is History: 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1 on Apple Podcasts
‎Show The Rest Is History, Ep 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1 - 12 Jan 2022

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2024-04-08 00:15:12

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Richard Swift:
🎵 The Novelist
#RichardSwift
open.spotify.com/track/1UsOG6a
richardswift.bandcamp.com/trac

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2024-03-24 23:48:58

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoseYourselfWith
Ezra Collective:
🎵 More Than A Hustler (feat. Novelist)
#EzraCollective
ezracollective.bandcamp.com/al