Interview with Robert Coover

The award-winning author talks cults, Kafka, and much more with LARB A.V.'s Jerry Gorin.
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Interview by Jerry Gorin
Produced by Jerry Gorin, James Simenc

[@samferguson9171]

I'm 3/4 through Origin of the Brunists and loving it. Coover is GREAT.

[@samferguson9171]

Awesome to hear about Melville and Pynchon helping him finish that first novel.

[@MarcusSpehBirkenkrahe]

Fascinating lesson on how to be a writer (too) - genesis of his first and his most recent novel. How small temptations add up to something more substantial with many stops and re/starts & how one theme can create an arc for a whole writing life. I recognize that "resistance to hard work" & the routine triumph over that same resistance. To ponder: "Form is a way to warp something right away...it is pliable and ideological". Metafictional playful parallels to Beckett and realism from Kafka. Realism re-grounded.

[@Mazurka1001]

..he .read (in his writings) too much (into) Bible IMO.