"When I reached 50, turned that mortal corner, I decided it was time to tell my own story unmediated by metaphorical disguise."
Selected Works
Fiction
BABBLE (1976)
"BABBLE is the further adventures of the only
infant hero in American Literature." --Esquire
RERUNS (1974), Fiction Collective
"RERUNS is about that place -- no small terrain -- where cinema, dream and memory meet, and no other novel has mapped it as well."
B, a novel (2002)
"The novel that takes his initial offers 14 ways
of looking at Baumbach’s writer-protagonist, 14 narrative variations on the distorting mirror."