Robert Coover reads from "The Public Burning"

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Kelly Writers House Fellow Robert Coover reads from "The Public Burning" 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.

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One of the very greatest novels of the 20th Century and, as Larry McCaffery suggested, the greatest American political novel. This stunning passage read so aptly by its author that I really feel the need now to reread the whole thing again. Followed by a chaser of his very dissimilar 21st Century masterpiece, Brunist Day of Wrath.

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Genius. I've listened to this at least 15 times and get something new during each listen.

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Just discovered this book because of a mention by Ted Solotaroff -- I can't believe I never heard of it before....