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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v8n12 (03/17/2009) » Section: Literary Buffalo


Buffalo Small Press Book Fair heralds the return of spring

The third annual Buffalo Small Press Book Fair returns this Saturday with its usual assortment of unusual missals, proffering everything from handmade artist’s books to comics, micropress poetry to zines. This year promises to be a refreshing one, with more than 70 vendors, including a healthy dose of locals as well as a smattering of work from around the Northeast, including New York City, Baltimore, Toronto, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.



Robert Coover returns to town

Since the 1966 publication of The Origin of the Brunists (which won the William Faulkner Award for Best First Novel), renowned novelist, short story writer, and hypertext pioneer Robert Coover has been a one-man fictional tour-de-force, negotiating the elusive boundary between the real and the illusory with intrepid, unerring vision. Described by the New York Times as “one of America’s quirkiest writers, if by ‘quirky’ we mean an unwillingness to abide by ordinary fictional rules,” Coover makes fiction that examines darkly laughable elements of the human experience, drawing upon fairy tales, the history of baseball, religious cults, and perhaps most famously the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Rosenberg trials.





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