Babble

by Jonathan Baumbach

Babble is a comic novel about entering and losing the world, an adult dream of lost childhood. Babble depicts our world through metaphors, using dreams, memory and cultural fantasy. Three sections of this were published in Esquire .

118 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 4, 2012

About the author

Born in Brooklyn, New York on July 5, 1933. Married Annette Grant (fourth wife) on Dec. 18, 2004. Former wives: Naomi Miller, Elinor Berkman, Georgia Brown. Children: David, Nina, Noah and Nico. A.B (English) Brooklyn College, MFA (Playwriting) Columbia University, Ph.D (English and American Lit), Stanford University. Fellowships include Guggenheim, National Endowment of the Arts, Merrill. Invented in 1973 (with Peter Spielberg) Fiction Collective, the first fiction writers cooperative in America; reinvented in 1988 as FC2. An unintentionally well-kept secret among contemporary American novelists. Author of 14 books of fiction