John Barth
John Barth’s fiction has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award and the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a professor emeritus in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His novels include The Floating Opera (1956), The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) and The Tidewater Tales (1987). His collections of short stories include Lost in the Funhouse (1968) and On with the Story (1996). His most recent novel is Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons (2011).
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Out of the Cradle
John Barth
‘What had formerly been a sedative, a tranquilizing soporific, had morphed into a facilitator of reflection, contemplation, deliberation, even inspiration.’
In Conversation | Issue 140
John Barth | Podcast
John Barth
John Barth discusses discovering William Faulkner and Lawrence Sterne as a student, the parallels between writing and arranging music, what happened to postmodernism and waiting for the muse to call.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
The End?: Writers respond to John Barth
Various Contributors
'I suggest he put aside all his writing rituals and that he give away all his money – that way he might find his talent will be rebooted.'
Essays & Memoir | Issue 118
The End?
John Barth
‘What do you do when your daily routine comes to a halt, when your latest achievement just might be your last?’
In Conversation | Issue 2
John Barth | Interview
John Barth
‘Everything we do in art is likely to turn out to be either prophecy or exorcism, whatever its other intentions.’
Fiction | Issue 2
Letters from LETTERS
John Barth
‘For autobiographical ‘fiction’ I have only disdain’.
