Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Robert Coover
Born: February 4, 1932
Died: October 5, 2024 (aged 92)
Bio: Robert Lowell Coover was an American novelist, short story writer, and professor emeritus in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He was generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction.
Known for:
- The Public Burning (1977)
- The Origin of the Brunists (1966)
- Pricksongs & Descants (1969)
- The Brunist Day of Wrath (2014)