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The Friday Book (1984) is a collection of essays published by novelist John Barth. Taking its title from the day of the week Barth would devote to nonfiction, the three dozen essays discuss a wide range of topics from the blue crabs of Barth's beloved Chesapeake Bay to literary subjects such as Borges, Homer, and semiotics. The Washington Post said of the collection: "Whether discussing modernism, postmodernism, semiotics, Homer, Cervantes, Borges, blue crabs or osprey nests, Barth demonstrates an enthusiasm for the life of the mind, a joy in thinking (and in expressing those thoughts) that becomes contagious. Indeed, if you've ever wondered what modernism, postmodernism, and semiotics mean, you've found the right place to learn."

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Contents

  • Some Reasons Why I Tell the Stories I Tell the Way I Tell Them Rather Than Some Other Sort of Stories Some Other Way (Originally published as “The Making of a Writer”)
  • How to Make a Universe
  • More on the Same Subject
  • An Afterword to Roderick Random
  • Mystery and Tragedy
  • Muse, Spare Me
  • The Tragic View of Recognition
  • The Literature of Exhaustion
  • More Troll Than Cabbage
  • The Role of the Prosaic in Fiction
  • The Ocean of Story
  • A Poet to the Rescue
  • Aspiration, Inspiration, Respiration, Expiration
  • The Tragic View of Literary Prizes
  • Praying for Everybody
  • Doing the Numbers
  • Intelligent Despisal
  • Writer’s Choice
  • Western Wind, Eastern Shore
  • The Spirit of Place
  • Getting Oriented
  • My Two Problems: 1
  • My Two Problems: 2
  • My Two Problems: 3
  • My Two Uncles
  • My Two Muses
  • The Future of Literature and the Literature of the Future
  • Algebra and Fire
  • Speaking of LETTERS
  • Historical Fiction, Fictitious History, and Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs, or, About Aboutness
  • The Literature of Replenishment
  • The Self in Fiction, or, “That ain’t no matter. That Is nothing.”
  • Revenge
  • Tales Within Tales Within Tales
  • The Prose and Poetry of It All, or Dippy Verses
  • The American New Novel
  • Don’t Count on It


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