Robert Coover's Fable Land discussion
Coover's Uncollected Stuff
"On Mrs. Willie Masters" by our very own Coover, appears in v24 #3 of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/... I sure would like to read it.
Well, heck - why is there a "list price" and "Your price" and no button to Buy? :/Or am I missing something?
Amy wrote: "Well, heck - why is there a "list price" and "Your price" and no button to Buy? :/Or am I missing something?"
Pain in the neck, ain't it? When Dalkey recently rearranged their website, something went screwy ;; all of the oop editions of RCF have prices, but no cart. Pain in the neck.
Meanwhile, if you buy amazon :: http://www.amazon.com/The-Review-Cont...
Yes, I have been known to do Amazon. Thanks!
Nathan "N.R." wrote: ""On Mrs. Willie Masters" by our very own Coover, appears in v24 #3 of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/... I sure would like to read..."
Try this - a digital download: http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Willie-Mast...
Wow Nathan thanks for those links. On the one hand it's neat to realize I'd read more of him than I'd thought; on the other hand it's weird to realize I'd read more of him than I'd thought (damn pawt).
Amy wrote: "Try this - a digital download: http://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Willie-Mast... ."I did see that , but it's more $$$ than the used RCF(Gass!!)+postage I have approaching me at speeds approaching speeds of the USPS itself!!!
@Gregsamsa == I'm very curious to see the ToC of the forthcoming In Bed One Night from Dzanc -- how much will be folded into it ;; possibly some limited edition things like Hair O' The Chine: A Documentary Film Script? (a little signed, numbered book which no one who enjoys parodies of literary criticism should miss -- if we don't read Coover's Chine, how will we ever understand what the three little piggies and the big bad wolfie were all about and what they were up to there with all their shenanigans?)
Nathan "N.R." wrote: ""On Mrs. Willie Masters" by our very own Coover, appears in v24 #3 of The Review of Contemporary Fiction; I sure would like to read it."And I read it. And but for those familiar with Coover and with Gass and with Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife it's a lovely hoot. For those who can't read it as an occasional piece, it might be too erotical or even, doubtless, someone will charge it with being sexist -- but nothing is sexier than pages and pages of wordswordswords. [And don't miss the cameo by Gass's golden aereoplane!]
[patience if you haven't already this issue of RCF ; "On" Willie's Wife oughta be included in next year's Coover collection from Dzanc]
I ordered this thing from an Amazon Marketplace seller over two weeks ago, and it still hasn't arrived; grrr...must be that danged Media Mail or something.
Amy wrote: "I ordered this thing from an Amazon Marketplace seller over two weeks ago, and it still hasn't arrived; grrr...must be that danged Media Mail or something."Those marketplace sellers' shipping speeds do range quite widely ; even media mail can go fast or slow.
[oh, but, have you read Gass's book? it's short and right up the alley of all honest cooverites]
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "oh, but, have you read Gass's book? it's short and right up the alley of all honest cooverites] ..."I have not. Having just been to Amazon, I've determined that this will have to be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan - hooray for the only Part-Time Faculty perk I have!
ETA: Woohoo, our library has it!
New story and short interview in The New Yorker ::http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs...
The story is "The Frog Prince" and hits a paywall. I'll be picking up a copy later today.
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "New story and short interview in The New Yorker ::http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs...
The story is "The Frog Prince" and hits a paywall. ..."
Hooray!
Fresh Coover from The New Yorker! Read it now!"The Waitress"
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat...
Bob says :: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs...
I posted this link in the Brunist Day of Wrath thread -but Coover is also reading "The Frog Prince" in this as well, so thought I'd crosspost -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=343jB6...
Hey, looks like the short story "Matinee" is now available without one needing to have a New Yorker subscription to read it. :)
Amy wrote: "Hey, looks like the short story "Matinee" is now available without one needing to have a New Yorker subscription to read it. :)"Yes! Thanks for noticing that. Two others as well ::
Matinée (2011)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Waitress (2014)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Frog Prince (2014)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
The Crabapple Tree (2015)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Get them before The Wall goes up again. (see also original post for TWO more! or just, http://www.newyorker.com/contributors...)
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "New Coover short in the New Yorker ::"The Crabapple Tree"
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201..."
Happy New Year to us!
Amy wrote: "Happy New Year to us! "Yes!
but my printer's out of ink, so I've not read it yet. : (
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Amy wrote: "Happy New Year to us! "Yes!
but my printer's out of ink, so I've not read it yet. : ("
Yeah, I find it easier to read print outs than computer screen. Hope you get some ink soon!
"Going for a Beer" podcast @ The New Yorker, chosen by/read by Joshua Ferris; reads/discusses :: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
[apologies for the advert and some bad music at the beginning]
Read Going for a Beer yourself ::
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
Would anyone who's better at doing it than I like to create a "book" page for "Matinee," please?Or maybe I'm not finding it...
Thanks.
Amy wrote: "Would anyone who's better at doing it than I like to create a "book" page for "Matinee," please."oh, it's not there? I'll see to it. Give me a day or two or something.
Maybe it's there, but I'm just not finding it.Also, trying to get up the gumption to buy an Atlantic Monthly subscription so I can read... what would be technically...two short stories?
Amy wrote: "Would anyone who's better at doing it than I like to create a "book" page for "Matinee," please?"Done!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Amy wrote: "And hey - what's up with this?http://www.vice.com/read/nighttime-of..."
Add'd that one too!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "Amy wrote: "And hey - what's up with this?http://www.vice.com/read/nighttime-of..."
Add'd that one too!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2..."
Thanks! (Didn't know about "Nighttime of the City.")
I have a question about "Nighttime of the City."After this sentence... "They rise once more, step under streetlamps, light cigarettes in cupped black-gloved hands, tug their hat brims down if they have them, adjust their black silk ties in their gleaming shirt collars, cock their ears. In the silence, the clocking heels resume."
it reads "continued below."
IS it continued below?
OR, is this, in itself, a Coover-ism? :D
Amy wrote: "it reads "continued below."IS it continued below?
OR, is this, in itself, a Coover-ism? :D
"
I'm not certain, but it looked to me more like an error in the page design, not something from Coover's hand. At least the story seemed to wrap up with that final line you quote ;; or if it is from Coover's hand, it might just be a thing about how the story could continue to circulate in its repetitiveness. Dunno.
Looks like "Going for a Beer" was recently (July 2015) anthologized in New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus, published by Vintage Contemporaries.(Sorry, I don't know how to do the html link thingie.)
Amy wrote: "Looks like "Going for a Beer" was recently (July 2015) anthologized in New American Stories, edited by Ben Marcus, published by Vintage Contemporaries."Yes! New American Stories. I'm almost tempted to pick it up ; the ToC sounds quite nice!
In The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages Coover's got a piece titled "The Bad Book". The entirety of which is/was available on the amazon pre=view.
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "In The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages Coover's got a piece titled "The Bad Book". The entirety of which is/was available on the amazon pre=view."Well, phooey. It isn't showing up on the preview for me.
Amy wrote: "Well, phooey. It isn't showing up on the preview for me. "Hopefully it'll show up again in a week or two.
So Coover's story The Crabapple Tree is in for an O. Henry ::http://lithub.com/announcing-the-2016...
Originally a New Yorker piece, repub'd here ::
http://lithub.com/the-crabapple-tree/
Happy to see that one can now read "White-bread Jesus" without having a Harper's subscription! (Just thought I'd try, to see if I could access any of the formerly subscription-only stories).https://harpers.org/archive/2008/12/w...
I don't feel like shelling out $46 to read the two that are still "locked" in the archives at Harpers.
Amy wrote: "Happy to see that one can now read "White-bread Jesus" without having a Harper's subscription! (Just thought I'd try, to see if I could access any of the formerly subscription-only stories)."This one's an excerpt from Brunist Day of Wrath. So there's more good Jesus stuff in store for you!
Ah, okay. Well, just read Hair o' the Chine last night. Next will be John's Wife. Then the Brunist Books. And hooray for "Huck Out West" coming soon!
"La Soledad: Our lives are directed by the whims of fortune. Salvation often comes from unexpected places." A Coover essay I must have missed. Pub'd in Lapham's Quarterly. http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/luck/...
New Coover short in The New Yorker this week ::“Invasion of the Martians” -- “He explained to them, politely, that there were certain obligatory regulations, and they shot him.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
And the intro piece ::
"This Week in Fiction: Robert Coover on How Real Events Can Color Fiction"
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "New Coover short in The New Yorker this week ::“Invasion of the Martians” -- “He explained to them, politely, that there were certain obligatory regulations, and they shot him.”
http://www.newyor..."
Woohoo!
Oedipus in Argentinareview of On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/boo...
Thanks to gr'r Glenn for the link!
If you've not seen it yet, Coover's latest in The New Yorker :“The Hanging of the Schoolmarm”
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "If you've not seen it yet, Coover's latest in The New Yorker :“The Hanging of the Schoolmarm”
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t......"
And you can hear it there, too! (with a few extra words than the printed version).
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "New Coover short=story ::Family Picnic
http://www.vice.com/read/family-picni..."
Egad; I was going to print it out for easier reading - but 52 pages! I'll go back tomorrow to read online!
Robert Coover's Fable Land
Books mentioned in this topic
On Heroes and Tombs (other topics)The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages (other topics)
The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages (other topics)
New American Stories (other topics)
Going For a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (other topics)
More...
Going for a Beer at The New Yorker (2011) :: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat...
The Colonel’s Daughter also at The New Yorker (2013) :: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat...
And if you have a subscription to The New Yorker, "Matinée" (2011) :: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat...
From The Fortnightly Review ::
"An Encounter" and "The Old Man" (both originally, 1972) (collected in In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters) http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/tag/ro...
From Harper's (subscription only) ::
The War Between Sylvania and Freedonia
The Case of the Severed Hand
White-Bread Jesus
Stick Man (collected in A Child Again)
Beginnings (collected in In Bed One Night & Other Brief Encounters)
http://harpers.org/author/robertcoover/