After writing about Jacob Horner in The End of the Road, this author wrote a novel about a man tutored by Henry Burlingame who marries Joan Toast after becoming Poet Laureate of Maryland.
This author described how Beckett and Borges succeeded Joyce and Kafka as "technically contemporary" writers in an essay called "The Literature of Exhaustion". The protagonist of a novel by this man gets a job at Wicomico State College and has an affair with Joe Morgan's wife Rennie before returning to a state of "psychological paralysis". After writing about Jacob Horner in The End of the Road, this author wrote a novel about a man tutored by Henry Burlingame who marries Joan Toast after becoming Poet Laureate of Maryland. For 10 points, name this author who satirized the modern university in Giles Goat-Boy and who wrote that aforementioned novel, The Sot-Weed Factor.
This author described how Beckett and Borges succeeded Joyce and Kafka as "technically contemporary" writers in an essay called "The Literature of Exhaustion".
John Simmons {Barth}