John Barth Quote

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto [Jorge Luis] Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

Boston Sunday Globe, C7 (2 Nov 2008)

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto...

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto...

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto...

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto...