Lemurian Congress

We arrive at our house and we celebrate: it is our own piece of land and sky. We are worried about debt but we remain hopeful, my wife more ...

ALAN: You should've seen that hippie guy last night at Phil's! BRAD: What a pussy! ALAN: He was all "Wah, wah, wah," w...

After Lou paid off his debts he went to the cheaper bars, the ones without pretty girls. He got into a drunken fight over a game of pool but...

I didn't see anything interesting in the stores and I didn't have any money. When I talked to the boy at the shoe store he kept rear...

I enjoyed this "Brooklyn Organ Synth Orchestra" clip of "Tubular Bells" so much that I eventually bought the song. Have ...

Robert Coover had dabbled with "trapped in a genre" stories before, but "Ghost Town" (1998) was the first time he exten...

This journey would have taken days in a wagon or on a horse, but we spend two hours in our car, heading north along the escarpment. We driv...

If "Briar Rose" (1996) appeared in a collection of short stories, I would probably appreciate it more. There is something about a...

Robert Coover's novels tend to come in one of two formats: either they're teeny-tiny books with huge text and wide margins (glorifi...

Okay, these Womrath's advertisements are lots of fun. From November 29, 1930, this one tells us that reading books is WAY more enjoyable...