Archive for Jack Matthews
Kafkas Bureaucratic Nightmares
Jack Matthews’ new play, An Interview With the Sphinx, published by The Dramatic Publishing Company, will also come out this spring in a special signed limited edition with The Logan Elm Press in Columbus, Ohio. His story “The Branch Office in Prague” (Dirty Tricks, Johns Hopkins) is based on Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” During telephone conversations [...]
1Apr1992 | Jack Matthews | 0 comments | ContinuedFeminist Censorship
Jack Matthews’ latest books are Dirty Tricks, a volume of stories with Johns Hopkins, and Memoirs of a Book man, bibliophilic essays with Ohio University Press, Athens. He also writes plays and collects old and rare books. Recently, while sitting alone and drinking coffee in the faculty lounge of the university where I teach English, [...]
1Jan1992 | Jack Matthews | 0 comments | ContinuedA Report from the World of Suggestive Looks
Jack Matthews’ latest books are Dirty Tricks, a volume of stories with Johns Hopkins, and Memoirs of a Book man, bibliophilic essays with Ohio University Press, Athens. He also writes plays and collects old and rare books. Recently I was sadly amused by a frontpage story in the student newspaper of the university where I [...]
1Jul1991 | Jack Matthews | 1 comment | Continued-
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