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One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borge… - John Barth
" "One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.
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About John Barth
John Simmons Barth (May 27, 1930 – April 2, 2024) was an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.
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