On April 2, John Barth, the author of “Lost in the Funhouse” along with dozens of other books including classics of — literature, “The Sot-Weed Factor” and “Giles Goat-Boy,” died at ...

John Barth in 1994. As his foremost inspiration, he cited Scheherazade, ... Mr. Barth took another gamble with his next book, saying it would be “a souped-up Bible. ...

Dave Kim is an editor at the Book Review. Nobody likes the comic who explains his own material, but the writer John Barth, who died on Tuesday, had a way of making explanations — of gags, of ...

John Barth, the playfully ... The author of 20 books including "Giles Goat-Boy" and "The Sot-Weed Factor," Barth was a college writing instructor who advocated for postmodernism to literature, ...

The book was Mr. Barth’s most openly political work, and included about 20 pages of news clippings from the Baltimore Sun about John Paisley, a former CIA official whose body was discovered in ...

I’d never heard of the book or its author. The length daunted me: 766 dense pages! But before I’d finished the multiple prefaces, John Barth had become my favorite writer.

John Barth, who, believing that the old literary conventions were exhausted, ... Barth took another gamble with his next book, saying it would be “a souped-up Bible. ...

John Barth, the playfully ... The author of 20 books including “Giles Goat-Boy” and “The Sot-Weed Factor,” Barth was a college writing instructor who advocated for postmodernism to ...

John Barth, who, believing that the ... He published nearly 20 novels and collections of short stories, three books of critical essays and a final book of short observational pieces.

John Barth, the playfully ... The author of 20 books including "Giles Goat-Boy" and "The Sot-Weed Factor," Barth was a college writing instructor who advocated for postmodernism to literature, ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — 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… ...