Brown University honored fiction writer Robert Coover this month with a three-day festival, “International Fiction Now: Celebrating the Unspeakable Practices of Robert Coover and the International Writers Project.”
Coover is known for being an innovator who broke the mold and showed new ways to tell a story. The event drew literary heavyweights like Don Delillo, Paul Auster and T.C. Boyle.
RIPR’s Chuck Hinman found the experience of covering the festival inspirational.April 2018 Artscape with Robert Coover
The event celebrated Coover not only for his decades of ground-breaking fiction, but also for his advocacy for freedom for writers around the world through his International Writers Project.
Robert Coover divides his time between Providence and Europe. He continues to write. Recent stories have appeared in the New Yorker, and he’s planning another collection, “Son of a Night at the Movies.”RIPR’s Chuck Hinman talks with Robert Coover, about his beginnings, his career and his take on post-modernism.
Authors Paul Auster, his wife Siri Hustvedt and Don Delillo were among the literary all-stars who came to celebrate Bob Coover, and to read some of their work. RIPR’s interviews with them are below:
RIPR’s Chuck Hinman talks with Paul Auster
