Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Coover

Robert Coover was one of the most important American novelists of the 20th Century, the author of more than twenty books including novels, short story collections, plays and other writings. He was also a leading figure in the field of electronic literature, the teacher of many digital writing workshops at Brown University, the co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization, and a tireless promoter of the field and of innovation in digital writing.  Robert Coover passed away on October 6, 2024, in the company of his family in Warwick, England, listening to “Penny Lane” by the Beatles as he drew his final breath.  This collage of voices, adapted from a simultaneously released Off Center podcast, is part of a larger project based on interviews that Robert Arellano and Scott Rettberg have been conducting with critics, creative writers, students, and friends of Coover in 2023-24, including many of the people who knew Coover's work best. We also include a segment of a lecture titled “A History of the Future of Narrative” that Coover gave at the University of Bergen in 2008, and segments of interviews Larry McCaffery conducted with Coover in 1979 and 1999. In order of first appearance, the speakers include Robert Coover, Scott Rettberg, Robert Arellano, Larry McCaffery, Lance Olsen, Nick Montfort, Stéphane Vanderhaege, Caitlin Fisher, Thomas A. Bass, Tom LeClair, and Alvin Lu.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works in which characters are out of their element. This is quite literally the case in Robert Coover's witty reworking of the fable “The Frog Prince,” who finds human life exhausting despite the enthusiasm of his suburban love interest. Parker Posey reads. In Cristina Henríquez's “Chasing Birds” a married couple share an exotic holiday locale, but not much else. It's voiced by Maryann Plunkett, who also comments on the story at the end of her read, and introduced by novelist Amy Tan, a bird lover and illustrator.

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The Lord presents images of the glory of life in relation to Job's appeal for death.  He asks Job if has mastery over the mountain goat, who thrives at heights which confound our sense of logic.   He then queries if Job knows the mountain goat's gestation or “calving” of the gazelles who sprint across the plains.  The point is that the animal kingdom is an immaculate wonder!    The Lord puts aside the complexities of mankind, which highlights how even his lesser kingdoms are infinite in their majesty.  Job is led to recognize the extent of man's knowledge as he has just one lifetime to take in lessons.   In somewhat violent poetic imagery, the Lord describes how mothers crouch down, split open, and through them bursts forth life.  They bring their young into a harsh world, many of which will grow and become strong.    This is symbolic in multiple ways.   There comes a time, where it is right to leave one's parents and chart one's own course – but we must keep in mind to do it in God's way.  Animals do not have this ability.  Instead, they go forth by a virtue of a biological imperative.  Further, those who chose to live without God are metaphorically thrown to animalistic chaos.   Canst Thou Bind the Unicorn?, reads the King James in a controversial translation.  The term translated (re'em) is not technically correct.  However, the Church of England scholars who approved said term, make the point quite well.  The mythical Unicorn appears to be a docile creature, but if approached, will NOT be tamed. God has imbued some animals with a spirit no man can break.  Such mysteries can be appreciated, if not understood.  If you corral, say a rhinoceros, man quickly learns a harsh lesson.   Each creature has been accorded a nature and habitat. Some are made for the jungles others the steppes.   Some dwell in barren areas.   None of us have power to control the animals God has placed beyond man's control. One can ponder: what world would you create if given the chance?  Could you imagine starting from scratch and coming up with the balance of the world we have?  An author who pursued this concept is Robert Coover, in his novel from 1968 -- the Universal Baseball Association. The Lord turns to the World of Birds to further make His point.  Behold, the Ostrich, who flaps her wings so joyously!  She beats them as if she expects to take off like the peacock, an odd bird you might not expect to see fly.  Who knows why God allowed the Peacock to fly but not the Ostrich? Perhaps by reason of a sense of humor passed to all of us -- made in His image.  Continuing with the Ostrich, the Lord remarks how mothers of this species often leave their eggs  unprotected.  She allows the eggs to be warmed by the sun, instead of her feathers.   She forgets about the danger of predators and accidents.   God's nature has hardened her to the possibility.  She has not been imbued with the wisdom we have.  Without fear, all her labor can be rendered in vain.  But how she races free when unencumbered and scoffs at animals that allow riders! God then turns to the horse.  The Lord asks if Job clothed his neck with thunder and made his snort a majestic strike of terror.   Think of the great clamor a horse makes as he churns up the valley, swallowing the ground with every gallop.   The Lord has made it so the horse will run into death before an enemy.   He will meet the clash of arms,  scoffing at fear.  He ignores any trumpet or meant to distract him.    The Lord then turns to the air.  He asks, Does the Hawk soar by Your wisdom and spread her wings? By Your command does the Eagle set her nest on the Heights and seeks her pray, and feed her babes. What Wondrous masters of the air His creature are!  It is a lesson to appreciate the majesties and glory of God and to be humble to recognize how little authority we have over the natural world.

In this episode librarians Andy, Keri, and Sam discuss their recent reads. In this episode we talked about: Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson Everyone on this train is a suspect by Benjamin Stevenson James by Percival Everett Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack We also mentioned: Everyone this Christmas has a secret by Benjamin Stevenson Erasure by Percival Everett American Fiction (Film) Dr. No by Percival Everett Trees by Percival Everett Finn by Jon Clinch Huck Out West by Robert Coover

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A punt d'acabar l'any, recollim 12 campanades liter

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Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University's MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University's MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University's MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University's MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Coover spoke at the Institute in the spring of 2006. Coover is the author of over a dozen postmodern novels, including The Public Burning and Pinochio in Venice. He was one of the early supporters of electronic fiction, which he defended in “The End of Books,” a 1992 New York Times essay. Coover established Brown University's MFA program in Digital Language Arts, and teaches courses on experimental narrative and literary hypermedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

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Una festa doble, la de la pr

Una festa doble, la de la pr

If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining our Patreon. Your support helps us keep the show running. Find out more at http://www.patreon.com/whyisthisgoodpodcast In this episode, we discuss “The Frog Prince” by Robert Coover. What can we learn from this retelling of a classic fairy-tale trope? Should we take a story like this literally? What does […]

This week writer, novelist and editor Lincoln Michel joins us to discuss his 2021 baseball-themed cyperpunk novel "The Body Scout" and his 2021 essay "Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?" This turned into a fun conversation that also dives into baseball in science fiction, Robert Coover's "The Universal Baseball Association," what exactly is cyberpunk, and the steroid era's aftermath.In part 2, Andrew and Craig contemplate some baseball related time travel questions.Lincoln Michel's website (https://lincolnmichel.com/)The Body Scout at bookshop.org:https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandruns"Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports" on Literary Hub (lithub.com)Episodes referenced:136 - The 1969 Seattle Pilots & the Early Expansion Era w/ Andy McCue-->Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/tT8d3pVUsN-->You can support Hooks & Runs by purchasing books, including the book featured in this episode, through our store at Bookshop.org. Here's the link. https://bookshop.org/shop/hooksandrunsHooks & Runs - www.hooksandruns.comHooks & Runs on TikTok -  https://www.tiktok.com/@hooksandrunsHooks & Runs on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thehooksandrunsAndrew Eckhoff on Tik TokLink: https://www.tiktok.com/@hofffestRex von Pohl (Krazy Karl's Music Emporium) on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/people/Krazy-Karlz-Music-Emporium/100063801500293/ Music: "Warrior of Light" by ikolics (Premium Beat)  

In dieser Folge gibt‘s Bücher von Männern, die viel gesehen, erlebt und geschrieben haben, u. a. Romane von Michael Köhlmeier und Matthias Matschke, Erinnerungen von F. C. Delius und ein neues Werk von Art Spiegelman.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works in which characters are out of their element.  Literally, in the case of Robert Coover's witty reworking of the fable “The Frog Prince,” who finds human life exhausting.  Parker Posey reads the story.  In Cristina Henriquez's “Chasing Birds” a married couple share an exotic holiday locale, but not much else. It's voiced by Maryann Plunkett, who also comments on the story at the end of her read. The story is introduced by writer and bird aficionado Amy Tan. 

Dave Moore's 7-minute compression of hard-boiled detective fiction tropes. He says he was inspired by Robert Coover, but he turns the pages his own poetic way in this one, with vocals by the author and backing from The LYL Band. WARNING: in this crescendo of inuendo, bad words and flawed people show up.

Charlie and Edward Carey (B: A Year in Plague and Pencils; The Swallowed Man) discuss his epic drawing project wherein he undertook to create a sketch each day of the pandemic, the various individuals whose lives became a part of the wider picture, and finish on a completely different but relevant subject - the literary and social history of Pinocchio. Some podcast apps do not show description links properly unless the listener subscribes to the podcast. If you can't click the links below and don't wish to subscribe, copy and paste the following address into your browser to access the episode's page on my blog: http://wormhole.carnelianvalley.com/podcast/episode-52-edward-carey The Harry Ransom Centre Edward's Twitter Edward's Instagram The Tombow B pencil Robert Louis Stevenson's The Land Of Counterpane Xavier de Maistre's A Journey Around My Room Theodor Kittelsen Pesta is the personification of the Black Death The Parco di Pinocchio Carlo Collodi Wikipedia's article on the original story of Pinocchio The oak tree in Collodi where Pinocchio was hanged Robert Coover's Pinocchio in Venice The Foundling Hospital Museum, London The Ospedale degli Innocenti Question Index 00:53 Was there a defining moment in your life when you realised you wanted to write and illustrate? 02:25 (Asking about Edward's role at the University of Texas) 04:24 Plague and Pencils: why did you start the project? 07:58 Was there any day's work/a couple of days' work that defines the project for you in terms of the actual drawings? 10:11 How many pencils did you get through? 10:54 Can you tell us about your art supplies and the pencils you use? 12:14 If you ever ran out of the Tombow Bs, what would be the next best pencil? 13:01 You often drew people who wrote in isolation or quarantine... 17:08 Was there a particular reason for the dates of the drawings not being included in the book? 19:53 You drew for 500 days; when did you know you had finished? 23:16 You've said you'd never written a diary, but you have now effectively got one. Do you think you might consider doing anything similar again? 23:58 If we can funnel what's been said already, what effect did this project have on you? 25:15 Your latest book is The Swallowed Man. Can you introduce it to us? 33:44 You wrote a stage adaptation of Pinocchio?... Purchase Links B: A Year In Plague And Pencils: Amazon UK Amazon US Waterstones Hive Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters The Swallowed Man: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Hive Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters I am an IndieBound affiliate and earn a small commission on qualifying purchases. Photograph used with the permission of the marketing team. Credit: Elizabeth McCracken.

durée : 00:43:32 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Mathilde Wagman, Marie Richeux - Rencontre avec le grand illustrateur américain, lauréat du prix Pulitzer en 1992 pour sa bande dessinée "Maus" et de passage à Paris à l'occasion de deux expositions: l'une autour de "Parade" de Si Lewen au MAHJ, l'autre à partir de ses illustrations du livre "Street cop" de Robert Coover. - invités : Art Spiegelman

durée : 00:43:32 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Mathilde Wagman, Marie Richeux - Rencontre avec le grand illustrateur américain, lauréat du prix Pulitzer en 1992 pour sa bande dessinée "Maus" et de passage à Paris à l'occasion de deux expositions: l'une autour de "Parade" de Si Lewen au MAHJ, l'autre à partir de ses illustrations du livre "Street cop" de Robert Coover. - invités : Art Spiegelman

durée : 00:52:10 - L'Heure bleue - par : Anne-Sophie DAZARD, Laure Adler - L'Heure Bleue reçoit l'un des mythes de la bande dessinée moderne : Art Spiegelman à l'occasion de la publication de "Street Cop" (Flammarion). Il signe les dessins de ce récit fou, noir, crépitant, signé Robert Coover.

This book is a work of "faction" (that's "fact" plus "fiction") about Richard Nixon's interactions with the physical manifestation(s) of Uncle Sam in the run-up to the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. So, uh, a weird one. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This book is a work of "faction" (that's "fact" plus "fiction") about Richard Nixon's interactions with the physical manifestation(s) of Uncle Sam in the run-up to the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. So, uh, a weird one. Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The great comics artist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Maus, has a new book out: Street Cop, illustrations for a story by Robert Coover, published by Isolarii.com. He talks about working on that during the pandemic, and about his most controversial drawings – at the New Yorker, and The Nation. Also: here's a new book about the sixties--about the heroism, and the disasters, of the movements of that decade. The authors are the brother and sister team David Talbot and Margaret Talbot--David is the founder of Salon.com, and Margaret writes for the New Yorker. And our critic Ella Taylor reviews “Not Going Quietly,” the documentary about activist Ady Barkan, who is dying of ALS.

The great comics artist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Maus, has a new book out: Street Cop, illustrations for a story by Robert Coover, published by Isolarii.com. He talks about working on that during the pandemic, and about his most controversial drawings – at the New Yorker, and The Nation. Also: here's a new book about the sixties--about the heroism, and the disasters, of the movements of that decade. The authors are the brother and sister team David Talbot and Margaret Talbot--David is the founder of Salon.com, and Margaret writes for the New Yorker. And our critic Ella Taylor reviews “Not Going Quietly,” the documentary about activist Ady Barkan, who is dying of ALS.

We said it couldn't be done: a bipartisan bill getting through Congress. Now, however, it looks like the $1 trillion infrastructure bill will get the Republican votes it needs in the Senate to pass. But what miserable compromises did the Democrats make to get ten Republican votes? John Nichols explains. Also: the great comics artist Art Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Maus, has a new book out: Street Cop, illustrations for a story by Robert Coover, published by Isolarii.com. He talks about working on that during the pandemic, and about his most controversial drawings—some of which only The Nation would publish. Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe.

Not a comicbook, but literally illustrated text, “Street Cop,” written by Robert Coover and inhabited by Art Spiegelman.

The legendary cartoonist talks to Thomas Jones about his latest book, Street Cop, a collaboration with Robert Coover, and looks back on previous work including Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers, which was originally published in the LRB.Find related pieces in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/spiegelmanpodBuy Street Cop here: https://isolarii.com/Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

T.C. Boyle on his selection: It was Donald Barthelme, along with Robert Coover, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar and Flannery O’Conner who spurred me to be in writing myself. Barthelme is best known for his abstract stories, like “Indian Uprising,” a story I cherish, but I’ve chosen “The School” for this program because of its tight comedic narrative and its presentation as a dramatic monologue. It works by escalation, as much of our humor does. The line, “We weren’t even supposed to have a puppy” always brings down the house. Of course, at its core, the story questions what education--knowledge itself--can do to ease the souls of a species, burdened with the foreknowledge of its own death. Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Jeremy and Megan discuss “Going for a Beer” by Robert Coover and “Bazaar of Bad Dreams” by Stephen King.

T.C. Boyle on his selection:  It was Donald Barthelme, along with Robert Coover, Samuel Beckett, Julio Cortázar and Flannery O’Conner who spurred me to be in writing myself. Barthelme is best known for his abstract stories, like “Indian Uprising,” a story I cherish, but I’ve chosen “The School” for this program because of its tight comedic narrative and its presentation as a dramatic monologue. It works by escalation, as much of our humor does. The line, “We weren’t even supposed to have a puppy” always brings down the house. Of course, at its core, the story questions what education--knowledge itself--can do to ease the souls of a species, burdened with the foreknowledge of its own death. Sixty Stories, by Donald Barthelme. Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Andy and Alyssa take a detour into R.L. Stine's YA horror and read The Babysitter (1989). They talk toxic masculinity, fetishizations of whiteness, When a Stranger Calls, No Future, phone creeps, lampreys, covering up for murder, being not a girl but not yet a woman, Friday the 13th, Robert Coover, bad bosses, and The Viper. How does The Babysitter compare to the Goosebumps books? And what's up with babysitters and horror? // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

In 2016, Evan Ungar from Canada set the highest vertical jump Guinness World Record at 63.5 inches. Will Tim surpass that milestone? If this week's results are any indicator, I would say yes, definitely. He need only add 35 and a quarter inches, which, to me, is child's play. If I wanted to set the vertical jump record I could also do it, but I have more pressing concerns to attend to. For example, watching Claire Saffitz make gourmet Tater Tots. I was also busy reading Robert Coover's 1968 novel The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. It's lucky that I did that because on this episode of the podcast, we discuss the book in full, and even go so far as to discuss the themes of the book including: The power of fiction/ the role of the author Postmodern metafiction Reflection on age/time passing The nature of God & the development of religion obsession/addiction Yep, another light-hearted romp through he world of the Tater Tot

This is your captain speaking: please put your tray tables up and return your seatbacks to their upright positions, we're approaching our descent into the last three chapters of Emily Nemens' novel, The Cactus League. If you'll look out of the right side of the plane, you'll see an update on Tim's progress in jumping a basketball, and on the left side, a discussion of the future of esports as well as the state of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The flight attendants are coming up the aisles to discuss positions of privilege within the all-consuming black hole of baseball's ecosystem in the last three chapters of the novel. The weather is partly cloudy and the forecast calls for a discussion of The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., a novel by Robert Coover in two weeks. I hope you had a comfortable trip and thank you for flying Tater Tots Book Boys Air! *** Donate to Baseball for All Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Stream with us on Twitch Email us! "Babu Frik" is written by Jonathan Mann as a part of the Song A Day Project, our outro theme is "The Littlest League Possible" by Guided By Voices, and our artwork is by Shelby Criswell.

Robert Coover (4 de febrero de 1932) Escritor y profesor universatario Estadounidense Voz: Stephanie Troiano "¿Qué quiere decir felices por siempre jamás, después de todo, sino una caída en lo ordinario, en la debilidad humana, acumulando desesperación, una caída de muerte?“ Robert Coover

Le trenta storie di questa raccolta ripercorrono la carriera di uno dei padri della letteratura americana.

We tarry cheerfully in the obscure and creepy corridors of Shirley Jackson's late novels, sites of psychic ambiguity and authorial (and architectural!) precision. Then, at the 46 minute mark, we assess the credibility of various trends of the young NBA season, as well as use the phrase "round into form" countless times. Next up, the postmodern 60s, and Robert Coover's orthographically complex (at least in title) novel The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. Join us!

In this episode, we discuss “The Babysitter” by Robert Coover.  What lessons can we take from such a unique piece that takes so many chances and nevertheless succeeds wildly?

In this episode, Hans, Chris, and I discuss a raunchy, satirical novel that explores sex, death, and Freud. Enjoy.

In this episode, Dave and Matt talk about their favorite literary and pop-cultural artifacts from the past year. This episode offers a contest as well, associated with the following music playlist. Good luck! TGC's Favorite Music of 2018 (iTunes) - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/playlist/the-great-concavitys-favorite-songs-of-2018/pl.u-pMyll2jh4KoErM TGC's Favorite Music of 2018 (Spotify) - https://open.spotify.com/user/concavityshow/playlist/6Gkdv29x9bpXIIzmmlWolO?si=V2aBBNKASm-70W12xwfn0g   Show Notes: *Correctional note* - When Matt was talking about Robert Coover in Marfa, he meant Robert Creeley. Dante Society - https://www.dantesociety.org/ The Great Concavity on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConcavityShow The Great Concavity on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/concavityshow/?hl=en Email us - concavityshow@gmail.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/concavityshow

Hari Kunzru reads and discusses “The Colonel's Daughter,” by Robert Coover, from a 2013 issue of The New Yorker.

Coover is the author of eleven novels, including “The Public Burning,” “The Brunist Day of Wrath,” and “Huck Out West.” His story collection “Going for a Beer” was published earlier this year.

Gabe Hudson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “The Frog Prince,” from a 2014 issue of the magazine.

On the last episode of 2016, Jill and Adam discuss the books coming out in January that they can't wait to read. The books discussed come from an overdrive.com list that you can look through and sample titles right here: https://www.overdrive.com/collections/22345/january-2017-new-releases-and-must-reads    Books discussed on this episode:   Difficult Women by Roxane Gay   Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth   The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry   Little Deaths by Emma Flint   My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King   RoseBlood by A. G. Howard   Wires and Nerve, Volume One by Marissa Meyer   The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti   Caraval by Stephanie Garber   4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster   The Girl Before by JP Delaney   Scratch by Manjula Martin   The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden   The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston   Once We Were Sisters by Sheila Kohler   Huck Out West by Robert Coover   Freeks by Amanda Hocking   Three Days in January by Bret Baier   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @OverDriveLibs. Email us directly at feedback@overdrive.com    Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com   Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter.  

Robert Coover reads his story “The Hanging of the Schoolmarm,” from the November 28, 2016, issue of the magazine. Coover is the author of ten novels, including “The Public Burning,” “Ghost Town,” and “The Brunist Day of Wrath.” A new novel, “Huck Out West,” will be published in January.

Robert Coover's short story Invasion of the Martians was first published in the September 2016 issue of the New Yorker magazine. Invasion of the Martians is a comic satire that uses the tropes of science fiction B-movies to comment on American political culture in 2016. Have you read this story? Let me know what you think by leaving a comment on my website www.joncronshaw.com - you can also check out my own short fiction there for free. #satire #politics #scifi

Robert Coover reads his story “Invasion of the Martians,” from the September 19, 2016, issue of the magazine. Coover is the author of ten novels, including “The Origin of the Brunists, “The Adventures of Lucky Pierre,” and “The Brunist Day of Wrath.” A new novel, “Huck Out West,” will be published next year. This is his seventh story in The New Yorker.

Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (Catapult) In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, meditate on, and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. With contributions from Etgar Keret, T.C. Boyle, Robert Coover, Aimee Bender, Jim Shepard, Alissa Nutting, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, and many more, Watchlist unforgettably confronts the question: What does it mean to be watched? By turns political, apolitical, cautionary, and surreal, these stories reflect on what it s like to live in the surveillance state. Aimee Bender is the author of five books; the most recent, The Color Master, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2013. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and more, as well as heard on This American Life. She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches creative writing at USC. Alexis Landau studied at Vassar College and received an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD from the University of Southern California in English literature and creative writing. Her first novel, The Empire of the Senses, was published by Pantheon Books in the spring of 2015. She lives with her husband and two children in Los Angeles. Miles Klee is an editor for the web culture site the Daily Dot as well as author of Ivyland (OR Books, 2012) and the story collection True False (OR Books, 2015). His essays, reportage, fiction, and satire have appeared inVanity Fair, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Awl, Guernica, The Collagist, and elsewhere. Bryan Hurt is the author of Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner of the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. His work has appeared in The American Reader, The Kenyon Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Recommended Reading, Tin House, TriQuarterly, among many others. He teaches creative writing at St. Lawrence University. Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger—the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the YA graphic novel In Real Life, the nonfiction business book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, and young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema, and Little Brother and novels for adults like Rapture of the Nerds and Makers. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and cofounded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in Los Angeles.

In the third part of my conversation with Tom Drury, we rewind to his days studying creative writing with Robert Coover, 'a great teacher'.----more---- After a discussion about realism and seriousness, Drury moves on to: his early short storieshis attempt to write different novels'The kind of sentences you want to make, it is not a static thing'David Hockney and Drury's interest in art the visual nature of Drury's prosetime and breaking the fourth wallwhy Drury continues to write about Grouse County'They are my repertory company'why he chooses not to write about Grouse CountyDrury's work in progressinspiration from folk tales, magic and Faust'I have never written about Mephistopholes'the role of religion in Drury's life and workon death, 'the unknowable thing'Drury's 'mid-western paranormal noir'his own return to Iowa and the possible affect on his workon interviews and readingsFor my interview with Tom in the Sunday Independent, click: here.

Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio)  From a rising star in the indie lit world comes a striking new Acid Western in the tradition of Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man or Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff.  Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them between towns. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own brand of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger.  Haunting, surreal, and possessing an unsettling humor, Haints Stay will ensure Winnette's growing reputation as an imaginative stylist and one of the most striking voices of his generation.  Praise for Haints Stay “The unexpectedness of Colin Winnette's fiction is nothing less than thrilling. Haints Stay is a solid, layered work of genre-defying beauty.”—The Lit Pub “Haints Stay puts to mind the very best contemporary novels of the old West, including those by powerhouses like Charles Portis, Patrick DeWitt, Robert Coover, Oakley Hall, E.L. Doctorow and Sheriff Cormac McCarthy himself, not to mention Thomas McGuane's classic screenplays for The Missouri Breaks and Tom Horn. But Colin Winnette has his own dark and delightful and surprising agenda. Be wary. He might be the new law in town." —Sam Lipsyte “Life is nasty, brutish, and short in this noir-tinged Western... that falls somewhat uncomfortably between ‘Deadwood' and The Crying Game. It sounds like a cross between Daniel Woodrell and Elmore Leonard right up until Winnette flips the script.”—Kirkus Reviews “If the Western genre could be thought of as a pile of old stones, Haints Stay is a particular piece of lovely spit-shined agate at the top, gleaming in invitation, and under its glow the others are changed.” —Amelia Gray “Funny, brutal and haunting, Haints Stay takes the traditional Western, turns it inside out, eviscerates it, skins it, and then wears it as a duster. This is the kind of book that would make Zane Grey not only roll over in his grave but rise undead from the ground with both barrels blazing.”—Brian Evenson “From his curiously harrowing Animal Collection to the glorious guts of Fondly, I trust wherever Colin Winnette's imagination sees fit to take me. And now — with Haints Stay — we venture to the lawless old West for a story stitched out of animal skins and language that glimmers like blood diamonds. This is a dangerous novel; let's read it and risk our lives together.”—Saeed Jones “Before the novel ends, there's cannibalism, an amputation, a bloody jailhouse shoot-out, a surprise birth, and the slaughter of a town's entire population. [A] portrait of the frontier as a place where desperation and death were always near at hand.”—Publishers Weekly “I loved it. Loved it! Haints Stay had me from the very first line—the visceral ante upped and crescendoing nearly every page. Humor, gore, that wonderful unsettling feel you get when you're reading a book that excites you and kind of scares you as well?,Yes, please.”—Lindsay Hunter Colin Winnette is the author of several books, including the SPD bestseller Coyote, and Fondly, listed among Salon's "best books of 2013." His writing has appeared in the Believer, the American Reader, McSweeney's, and 9th Letter, among other places. His prizes include the NOS Book Contest (for Coyote) and Sonora Review's Short Short Fiction Prize. He was a finalist for Gulf Coast Magazine's Donald Barthelme Prize for short prose and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Award. He conducts a semi-regular interview series for Electric Literature and is an associate editor of Pank magazine. He lives in San Francisco. Karolina Waclawiak received her BFA in Screenwriting from USC School of Cinematic Arts and her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Her first novel, How To Get Into The Twin Palms, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2012. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Rumpus, and The Believer (where she is also an editor). She lives in Los Angeles.

Joshua Ferris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer,” from a 2011 issue of the magazine.

Like a precocious fireballer at top of the prospect rankings … a kid who has shown so much promise and from whom so much is expected … who has three plus pitches and is working on a fourth … whose intangibles are as off the charts as his athleticism … who is putting it all together at AAA and knocking at the door … who will make men look like boys … and who ends up THE OPPOSITE OF ALL THOSE THINGS – that’s this book. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

Like a precocious fireballer at top of the prospect rankings … a kid who has shown so much promise and from whom so much is expected … who has three plus pitches and is working on a fourth … whose intangibles are as off the charts as his athleticism … who is putting it all together at AAA and knocking at the door … who will make men look like boys … and who ends up THE OPPOSITE OF ALL THOSE THINGS – that’s this book. Download the mp3 file Subscribe in iTunes From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. https://litopia.com/shows/burn/

In this episode, fiction writer Robert Coover discusses his life and career and reads from his new novel The Brunists' Day of Wrath. Coover appeared April 17, 2014 at UNLV's Greenspun Hall Auditorium in Las Vegas, NV and served as the 2014 Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing at UNLV.

In this episode, fiction writer Robert Coover discussers his new novel, The Brunists' Day of Wrath, on the April 17, 2014 edition of KNPR's "State of Nevada." Coover read from his work at a BMI event later that night and also served as the 2014 Elias Ghanem Chair in Creative Writing at UNLV.

Robert Coover reads "The Daughters of the Moon," by Italo Calvino.

Highlights from the Granta Podcast 2011 - with readings by Binyavanga Wainaina, Robert Coover & Taiye Selasi. Plus outtakes and extras from our events series.

The reissue of his early novels as Penguin Classics in 2011 underlines his status as a giant of American literary postmodernism. Stories like Spanking the Maid, Gerald's Party and Pricksongs and Descants show that a mordant – and morbid – humour are part of his genius.

Robert Coover reads his story 'Vampire' (available now on granta.com) and talks to Online Editor Ted Hodgkinson about the intersection of myth and the modern world.

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies: Penguin Modern Classics author Robert Coover (Pricksongs & Descants [1969], Ghost Town [1998], NOIR [2010]) will speak about metafiction, electronic literature and the future of writing.

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies: Penguin Modern Classics author Robert Coover (Pricksongs & Descants [1969], Ghost Town [1998], NOIR [2010]) will speak about metafiction, electronic literature and the future of writing.

The reissue of his early novels as Penguin Classics in 2011 underlines his status as a giant of American literary postmodernism. Stories like Spanking the Maid, Gerald's Party and Pricksongs and Descants show that a mordant – and morbid – humour are part of his genius. One former student described Coover as 'the most generous, rabidly intelligent, accessible, erudite and hilarious teacher I have ever met.' Another said 'Coover is flame retardant'. Recorded live, in conversation with Scotland's own literary firebrand Stuart Kelly, at the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Robert Coover talks about metafiction with Al Filreis and others.

A Child Again (McSweeney's) In part two of the interview, Coover lays bare the illusions and delusions that his stories about childhood and growth are meant to dispel. He reads from a story about Puff, the dragon, and speculates about how older knights slay the dragons of their later years.

A Child Again (McSweeney's) Robert Coover, a reigning master of experimental narrative, gives a two-part interview for this, his long-anticipated first visit to Bookworm. In part one, Coover offers an overview of his career, revealing that even from the first his themes, intentions and methods were fully imagined. He then worked on these retold fairy tales and comic political allegories sometimes for a decade or more before completion and publication.