The John Barth Information Center

If you would like any Barth-related links included in this list, please feel free to e-mail me and I’ll do my best to include them. I don’t check these links on a regular basis either, so please alert me if any of these links are out-of-date or no longer in existence. Thanks to Allen Mercier, Mark Brawner and Kris Majer!

Other Barth Sites

• A John Barth discussion group on Yahoo Groups, run by Mark Brawner. This is quite a lively and devoted bunch of Barthomaniacs. If you’re looking for rousing book chat on Barth, you should join!
• John Barth Lecture Hall at mobydicks.com. (A sort of precursor to the Yahoo Groups list. )
• Blair Mahoney’s well-designed Barth site at The Modern Word’s Scriptorium
• Piero Scaruffi’s Ultimate Guide to Barth, in Italian

Work Published Online

• “And Then There’s the One” (excerpt) from Conjunctions (1998)
• An appreciation of the late author John Hawkes in the NY Times (free registration required). Also on Brown University’s website
• Blurbs by Barth in praise of other authors
• “Click” (originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, December 1997)
• Coming Soon!!!, the entire first chapter on the New York Times Book Review site (free registration required)
• “A Few Words About Minimalism” from the New York Times (free registration required)
• The End of the Road excerpt in BoldType
• “The Making of a Writer” from the New York Times (free registration required)
• “Preparing for the Storm,” “Good-bye to the Fruits,” and “And Then One Day” (all from On With the Story) in Conjunctions
• “Romancing the Muse” from the New York Times (free registration required)
• “Thinking Man’s Minimalist: Honoring Barthelme” from the New York Times (free registration required)
• “Virtuality” — non-fiction, Johns Hopkins Magazine, 1994
• “Welcome to College — and My Books” from the New York Times (free registration required)
• “Writing: Can It Be Taught?” from the New York Times (free registration required)

Uncollected Work

• “The Accidental Mentor,” Leslie Fiedler and American Culture - University of Delaware Press, 1999
• “The Parallels!” Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, published online in Context
• “Peeping Tom,” Subtropics Issue 1, Winter/Spring 2006
• “Tear Down,” CONJUNCTIONS:47 - Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue, Fall 2006
• “The Judges Jokes,” The American Scholar, Spring 2007
• “Assisted Living,” Subtropics Issue 4, Fall/Winter 2007
• “Toga Party,” Best American Short Stories 2007

Interviews

• 2004 — By Kera Bolonik for Bookforum
• 2004 — By John Barry for the Baltimore City Paper
• 2001 — By Michael Silverblatt on “Bookworm” at KCRW, 10/25 and 11/1
• 2001 — By Blair Mahoney at the Modern Word
• 2000 — By Charlie Reilly for Contemporary Literature XLI, 4. For sale via JSTOR
• 1998 — By Elizabeth Farnsworth of the PBS Online NewsHour
• 1991 — By Dave Edelman for the Johns Hopkins News-Letter (on this site)
• 1982 — By Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times Book Review
• 1981 — By Charlie Reilly for Contemporary Literature 22
• 1980 — By Heide Ziegler for sale in a back issue of Granta
• 1966 — By Phyllis Meras in the New York Times Book Review

Reviews

• Chimera: NY Times
• Coming Soon!!!: Center for Book Culture, CityPages.com (Twin Cities), The Modern Word, New York Times, Washington Post
• Floating Opera: NY Times
• Friday Book: NY Times
• Giles Goat-Boy: NY Times
• Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor: NY Times, MIT’s The Tech, some guy named Simon on Geocities
• Lost in the Funhouse: NY Times
• On With the Story: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (NY Times) and Salon
• Once Upon a Time: the Atlantic (subscribers only), NY Times
• Sabbatical: Michael Wood
• Sot-Weed Factor: NY Times
• Tidewater Tales: NY Times

Criticism

• An online essay/study guide on Funhouse at Georgetown University’s site
• An essay on andintro to Barth’s “Menelaiad” (from Funhouse) at SUNY Buffalo
• Discussion of “Literature of Exhaustion” at The Electronic Labyrinth
• A discussion on The Postmodern Novel at The Electronic Labyrinth
• An essay on The End of the Road by Jonathan Lethem
• An essay on Vineland in the Novels of John Barth and Thomas Pynchon
• An article on Barth and postmodernism in Context
• Old-fashioned fun and mutability in Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor, an essay by Richard Seltzer
• An essay called “From Modernism to Postmodernism: (E)motion Pictures in Proust, Eco, Barth and Pynchon”

Publishers

• Dalkey Archive Press pages for Sabbatical and LETTERS
• Houghton Mifflin’s pages for Coming Soon!!!, an associated press release, and for:
  Chimera, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night, and The Development
• Johns Hopkins Press page for The Tidewater Tales
• Little Brown & Co. (Hachette Book Group USA) pages for Further Fridays and On With the Story

Miscellaneous

• Wikipedia entry for John Barth
• Featured Author: Reviews and Articles from the Archives of the New York Times (free registration required)
• Barth links and information at the Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan
• An article about Barth receiving an honor at Penn State University
• The Johns Hopkins University, where Barth taught fiction in The Writing Seminars Department
• Online study guides for (among others) “Dunyazadiad” (from Chimera)
• The Writer’s Forum at SUNY Brockport, where a videotape of a Barth guest lecture is available
• An article from Maryland Marine Notes about Barth and the Chesapeake Bay
• Article about Barth’s reading at the Library of Congress in November of 1997
• An article from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about Coming Soon!!!
• An essay by Lee Hill on the Terry Southern website reassessing the merits of the film version of The End of the Road
• Barth was a panelist on a Bill Moyers public television special called Genesis: A Living Conversation. Buy the Genesis video or the Genesis book
• Article about a Barth reading at the University of Mississippi
• Article about Barth receiving an honorary doctorate at Penn State University
• The Atlantic’s introduction to the story “Click”
• The Baltimore City Paper revisits the war of words between John Barth and John Gardner.
• “I’ve Been Told: A Story’s Story.” Barth reads from his contribution to Conjunctions: 44, The Anatomy of Roads. (Conjunctions Audio Vault)