The John Barth Information Center

John Barth on the back cover of

About This Site

The John Barth Information Center has not been officially sanctioned by John Barth. This site was created in 1994 by David Louis Edelman (author of the novel Infoquake). You can contact David via e-mail at dedelman@gmail.com.

What’s New

Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Non-Fiction released April 17, 2012 by Counterpoint

Every Third Thought: A Novel in Five Seasons

Who Is John Barth?

John Barth is the author of Giles Goat-Boy, The Sot-Weed Factor, and Chimera, among many others. His short story collection Lost in the Funhouse and his essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" have been required reading on college campuses since the '70s. Barth is widely considered to be among the most important American novelists of the 20th century and one of the foremost practitioners of postmodernism and metafiction.
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