John Baker’s Blog

We grabbed another chance to see Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, presented by the Old Bomb Theatre at York Theatre Royal and directed by Cecily Boys.
Early evening, a country road, a tree.
Nobody comes and nobody goes…
Old friends Vladimir and Estragon wait for Godot, but who is he? What has he to offer?
Sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes [...]

At the Electronic Book Review Brian McHale has a new essay on postmodernism. He extracts quotations from Raymond Federman’s novel, Aunt Rachel’s Fur, of which the following is one.
So you find my novel too postmodern, wrong again Gaston, you’ve arrived too late, we are already beyond postmodernism, it’s dead, dead and gone, don’t you know, [...]