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Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor emeritus in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University in 1953, then served in the United States Navy. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. He was a professor at Brown University from 1981–2012.
Coover's wife is the noted needlepoint artist Pilar Sans Coover. They have three children, including Sara Caldwell.
Coover's first novel was The Origin of the Brunists, in which the sole survivor of a mine disaster starts a religious cult. His second book, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., deals with the role of the creator. The eponymous Waugh, a shy, lonely accountant, creates a baseball game in which rolls of the dice determine every play, and dreams up players to attach those results to.
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Kelly Writers House Fellow Robert Coover discusses relocating the mainstream at the Kelly Writers House on February 24, 2009. to hear more Robert Coover go to: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Coover.php http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows/coover.html Robert Coover is an avant-garde novelist, critic and playwright lauded for experimental forms and techniques that mix reality and illusion, frequently creating otherworldly or surreal situations and effects. A leading proponent of hypertext fiction and metafiction, Mr. Coover is known as a true revolutionary in contemporary American literature and language.
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The award-winning author talks cults, Kafka, and much more with LARB A.V.'s Jerry Gorin. More great interviews, profiles and mini-features at http://lareviewofbooks.org/av/ Los Angeles Review of Books: http://lareviewofbooks.org Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LARBedit... Follow LARB on Twitter: @lareviewofbooks Like LARB on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-Review-of-Books-LARB/224105870934491 Interview by Jerry Gorin Produced by Jerry Gorin, James Simenc
Kay Bonetti interviews Robert Coover at Brown University in May, 1981, for the American Audio Prose Library. In this clip, they discuss Coover's first story collection--Pricksongs and Descants--and the ways short stories allow a writer to "experiment and try on different roles."
to hear more Robert Coover go to: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/... http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fe... Kelly Writers House Fellow Robert Coover answers the question "Why Write?" at the Kelly Writers House on February 23, 2009. Robert Coover is an avant-garde novelist, critic and playwright lauded for experimental forms and techniques that mix reality and illusion, frequently creating otherworldly or surreal situations and effects. A leading proponent of hypertext fiction and metafiction, Mr. Coover is known as a true revolutionary in contemporary American literature and language.
In the first of our author interviews from this year's Edinburgh international book festival, Tom McCarthy tells us what he's here to talk about, and why he's sorry to be missing Robert Coover
On November 1, 2016, as part of the Neureuther Library Lecture Series, esteemed fiction writer Robert Coover read in the Special Collections of Olin Library. Because of the proximity to the national election, Coover read his classic 1968 short story, "The Cat in the Hat for President."
Robert Coover (ur. 1932) – amerykański prozaik i emerytowany profesor Uniwersytetu Brown. Wymieniany obok Pynchona, Bartha czy Barthelme'a jako najważniejszy przedstawiciel literackiego postmodernizmu. Niezwykle rozmiłowany w metafikcjach oraz spiętrzaniu i nakładaniu na siebie opowieści. W swojej twórczości uwielbia czerpać garściami inspiracje z popkultury, poprzez budowanie fabuł opartych na zbiorowych wyobrażeniach i gatunkowych kliszach. Widać to na przykład w powieści Miasto widmo, która jest w całości grą z westernową konwencją, a także w zbiorze opowiadań Wieczór w kinie, gdzie nieustannie mamy do czynienia z filmowymi cytatami, których źródeł nie da się precyzyjnie określić. W Polsce ukazała także jego powieść Impreza u Geralda oraz dwa opowiadania: Służąca i jej pan i Gus Burczym...
Kelly Writers House Fellow Robert Coover discusses relocating the mainstream at the Kelly Writers House on February 24, 2009. to hear more Robert Coover go to: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Coover.php http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows/coover.html Robert Coover is an avant-garde novelist, critic and playwright lauded for experimental forms and techniques that mix reality and illusion, frequently creating otherworldly or surreal situations and effects. A leading proponent of hypertext fiction and metafiction, Mr. Coover is known as a true revolutionary in contemporary American literature and language.
Discussing his life's work witth Michael Silverblatt. From 2005.
Robert Coover mentors the heated political discussion following a speech from writer Nuruddin Farah at his panel for the International Writers Center conference "The Writer in Politics." The conference was hosted by William Gass and Lorin Cuco from October 18-21, 1992, at Washington University. The full transcription of this conference is available in a book--also entitled "The Writer in Politics"--published in 1996 by Southern Illinois University. For more Robert Coover and International Writers Center footage, visit http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/mlc50.
Robert Coover reading his short story "Beginnings" from his 'Pricksongs and Descants'. To learn more about Robert Coover, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Coover
Be my, be my baby
Yesterday, I was watching the turning tide, of a memories of a changing shore line
Otherwise, was nevermore. Life was different, you closed the door
Still in all my heart is true, there's no forgetting you, what can I do?
Girl, don't you feel the things you've done to me
Took my broken heart and set it free, oh, girl.
Memories, change with every passing day, change with every word you stay
Lost in love without a trace, find myself, in a different place
Listen girl, I still believe, you'll find a way, come back to me
Girl, don't you feel the things you've done to me
Took my broken heart and set it free, oh, girl.
Now the flame is burning, but the fire is gone
This love that's haunting me, but I still push on
You touched controls, and they're moving me
And I can't break away, no.
Solo
Today, I sat and watched the setting sun, sit and think of only love,
A distance shore, a far away, restless heart so hard to tame
Listen girl, I still believe, you'll find you're way, come back to me
Girl, don't you feel the things you've done to me
Took my broken heart and set it free, oh, girl.
Girl, don't you close your eyes and walk away
Let me down and just fade away, oh, girl.
Don't you feel those things you do, don't you feel those things you do to me,
Oh, yeah, I said girl, girl, yeah
What you've done, don't you feel those feelings there