This is a bibliography of works by Donald Barthelme .
Title | Publisher | Notes |
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Snow White | Atheneum (1967) | first published in The New Yorker on February 18, 1967 [1] |
The Dead Father | Farrar, Straus (1975) | incorporates the short story "A Manual for Sons" |
Paradise | Putnam (1986) | |
The King | Harper (1990) |
Title | Publisher | Notes |
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Come Back, Dr. Caligari | Little, Brown (1964) | |
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts | Farrar, Straus (1968) | |
Guilty Pleasures | Farrar, Straus (1968) | Non-fiction |
City Life | Farrar, Straus (1970) | |
Sadness | Farrar, Straus (1972) | |
Amateurs | Farrar, Straus (1976) | |
Great Days | Farrar, Straus (1979) | |
Sixty Stories | Putnam (1981) | |
Overnight to Many Distant Cities | Putnam (1983) | |
Sam's Bar | Doubleday (1987) | With illustrations by Seymour Chwast |
Forty Stories | Putnam (1987) | |
The Teachings of Don B. | Turtle Bay Books (1992) | Satires, parodies, Fables, illustrated stories, and plays |
Not-Knowing | Random House (1997) | Essays and interviews |
Flying to America | Shoemaker & Hoard (2008) | |
Collected Stories | Library of America (2021) | Collects seven complete books: Come Back, Dr. Caligari; Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts; City Life; Sadness; Amateurs; Great Days; Overnight to Many Distant Cities; selections from Sixty Stories and Forty Stories, and 4 uncollected stories |
Title | Publisher |
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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or the Hithering Thithering Djinn | Farrar, Straus (1971) |
Includes short stories, satires, parodies, fables, and illustrated stories, arranged by first date of publication.
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Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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Pages from the Annual Report | Forum, Spring 1959 (as David Reiner) | Flying to America (2008) |
Me and Miss Mandible | Contact 7, February 1961 (under the title "The Darling Little Duckling At School") | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Hiding Man | First Person 1, spring/summer 1961 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
The Big Broadcast of 1938 | New World Writing 20, 1962 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
The Viennese Opera Ball | Contact 10, June 1962 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
L'Lapse | The New Yorker, March 2, 1963 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Florence Green is 81 | Harper's Bazaar, April 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
The Piano Player | The New Yorker, August 31, 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight | The New Yorker, October 12, 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
To London and Rome | Genesis West 2, Fall 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
A Shower of Gold | The New Yorker, December 28, 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Margins | The New Yorker, February 22, 1964 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Down the Line with the Annual | The New Yorker, March 21, 1964 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Man's Face | The New Yorker, May 30, 1964 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
A Picture History of the War | The New Yorker, June 20, 1964 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
The Police Band | The New Yorker, August 22, 1964 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
For I'm the Boy | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Will you Tell me? | Arts and Literature | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Joker's Greatest Triumph | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Up, Aloft in the Air | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) | Flying to America (2008) |
The President | The New Yorker, September 5, 1964 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Game | The New Yorker, July 31, 1965 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Can We Talk | Art and Literature 5, Summer 1965 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
Snap Snap | The New Yorker, August 28, 1965 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Edward and Pia | The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
This Newspaper Here | The New Yorker, February 12, 1966 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
See the Moon? | The New Yorker, March 12, 1966 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Several Garlic Tales | The Paris Review, No. 37, Spring 1966 | |
The Balloon | The New Yorker, April 16, 1966 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Games are the Enemies of Beauty, Truth, and Sleep, Amanda Said | Mademoiselle, November 1966 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Dolt | The New Yorker, November 11, 1967 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Alice | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Report | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Indian Uprising | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
A Few Moments of Sleeping and Waking | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Forty Stories (1987) | |
And Now Let's Hear it for The Ed Sullivan Show! | Esquire, April 1969 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Bone Bubbles | The Paris Review 48, 1969 | City Life (1970); Flying to America (2008) |
Paraguay | The New Yorker, September 6, 1969 | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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Brain Damage | The New Yorker, February 21, 1970 | City Life (1970); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Sentence | The New Yorker, March 7, 1970 | City Life (1970); Forty Stories (1987) |
A Nation of Wheels | The New Yorker, June 13, 1970 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Many Have Remarked... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, June 13, 1970 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Newsletter | The New Yorker, July 11, 1970 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Views of My Father Weeping | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
On Angels | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Phantom of the Opera's Friend | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
City Life | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Falling Dog | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Policeman's Ball | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Glass Mountain | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
At the Tolstoy Museum | City Life (1970); Forty Stories (1987) | |
The Explanation | City Life (1970); Forty Stories (1987) | |
Adventure | Harper's Bazaar, December 1970 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Rise of Capitalism | The New Yorker, December 12, 1970 | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Death of Edward Lear | The New Yorker, January 2, 1971 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Story Thus Far: | The New Yorker, May 1, 1971 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Critique de la Vie Quotidienne | The New Yorker, July 17, 1971 | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Natural History | Harper's, August 1971 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Mothball Fleet | The New Yorker, September 11, 1971 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
Two Hours to Curtain | part of "Flying to America," The New Yorker, December 4, 1971 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Dragon | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, February 26, 1972 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Sandman | The Atlantic | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Träumerei | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
A City of Churches | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
Daumier | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Party | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Genius | The New Yorker, February 20, 1971 | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Aircraft Between Milbertshofen and Cambrai, March 1916 | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
Departures | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
The Catechist | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
The Temptation of St. Anthony | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
A Film | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
Perpetua | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Flying to America (2008) |
Subpoena | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Flying to America (2008) |
Wrack | The New Yorker, October 21, 1972 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
Swallowing | The New York Times, November 4, 1972 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Sea of Hesitation | The New Yorker, November 11, 1972 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
A Man | The New Yorker, December 30, 1972 | Flying to America (2008) |
The Inauguration | Harper's, January 1973 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Young Visitirs | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, February 10, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Teachings of Don B.: A Yankee Way of Knowledge | The New York Times Magazine, February 11, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Our Work and Why We Do It | The New Yorker, May 5, 1973 | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Educational Experience | Harper's, June 1973 | Amateurs(1976), Forty Stories (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
That Cosmopolitan Girl | The New Yorker, July 16, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware | The New Yorker, September 3, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Angry Young Man | Fiction , Vol. 2, No. 2, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Royal Treatment | The New York Times, November 3, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Palace | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, December 24, 1973 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Photographs | The New Yorker, January 28, 1974 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Heliotrope | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, April 1, 1974 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Mr. Foolfarm's Journal | The Village Voice, May 16, 1974 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Letters to the Editore | Guilty Pleasures (1974); Forty Stories (1987) | |
The New Member | The New Yorker, July 15, 1974 | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
Eugénie Grandet | Guilty Pleasures (1974); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Bunny Image, Loss of: The Case of Bitsy S. | Guilty Pleasures (1974) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Nothing: A Preliminary Account | Guilty Pleasures (1974); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
I Bought a Little City | The New Yorker, November 11, 1974 | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
I Was Gratified This Week... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, November 18, 1974 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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A Manual for Sons | The Dead Father (1975); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Dassaud Prize | The New Yorker, January 12, 1976 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Monumental Folly | The Atlantic, February 1976 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Cornell | Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalogue, February–March 1976; Ontario Review 5, Fall/Winter 1976 | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Great Debate | The New Yorker, May 3, 1976 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
At the End of the Mechanical Age | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Rebecca | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Captured Woman | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Sergeant | Fiction, Vol. 3, Nos. 2+3, 1975 | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The School | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Great Hug | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby | The New Yorker, May 26, 1973 | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) |
Porcupines at the University | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) | |
The Wound | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) | |
110 West Sixty-First Street | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) | |
The Agreement | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) | |
What To Do Next | Amateurs (1976) | |
And Then | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) | |
The Discovery | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) | |
The Reference | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) | |
You Are as Brave as Vincent Van Gogh | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) | |
I Have for Some Time... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, October 10, 1977 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Crisis | The New Yorker, October 24, 1977 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Apology | The New Yorker, February 20, 1978 | Great Days (1979); Flying to America (2008) |
The New Music | the New Yorker, June 19, 1978 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
How I Write My Songs | The New Yorker, November 27, 1978 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
At Last, it is Time... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, November 27, 1978 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
We dropped in at the Stanhope... | "Notes and Comments", The New Yorker, December 25, 1978 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Aria | The New Yorker, March 12, 1979 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
Well We All Had Our Willie & Wade Records... | Harper's, June 1979 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Languishing, Half Deep in Summer | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, July 30, 1979 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Grandmother's House | The New Yorker, September 3, 1979 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
Great Days | Great Days (1979); Forty Stories (1987) | |
The Question Party | Great Days (1979) | Flying to America (2008) |
Cortés and Montezuma | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Zombies | The New Yorker, April 25, 1977 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
The King of Jazz | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Morning | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Abduction from the Seraglio | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
On the Steps of the Conservatory | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Leap | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Concerning the Bodyguard | Great Days (1979); Forty Stories (1987) | |
Belief | Great Days (1979); Flying to America (2008) | |
Tales of the Swedish Army | Great Days (1979); Flying to America (2008) |
Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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I Wrote a Letter... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, October 27, 1980 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Pepperoni | The New Yorker, December 1, 1980 | Forty Stories (1987) |
Thailand | The New Yorker, December 29, 1980 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
The Emperor | The New Yorker, January 26, 1981 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
Challenge | The New Yorker, October 5, 1981 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Donald Barthelme's Fine Homemade Soups | The Great American Writer's Cookbook (1981) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Emerald | Sixty Stories (1981) | |
The Farewell | Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Heroes | Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Bishop | Sixty Stories (1981) | |
Kissing the President | The New Yorker, August 1, 1983 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
I am, at the Moment... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Now that I am Older... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Speaking of the Human Body... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
A Woman Seated on a Plain Wooden Chair... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
That Guy in the Back Room... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Financially, the Paper... | The New Yorker | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) |
I Put a Name in an Envelope... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | |
They Called for More Structure... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
When He Came... | The New Yorker | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) |
The First Thing the Baby Did Wrong... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | |
On Our Street... | The New Yorker | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) |
Affection | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
Visitors | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
Lightning | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
The New Owner | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) | |
Sakrete | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
Overnight to Many Distant Cities | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
The Baby | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) | |
Captain Blood | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
Conversations with Goethe | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
The Palace at Four A.M. | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
Terminus | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) | |
Henrietta and Alexandra | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) | |
Return | Houston Post, March 23, 1984 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Sinbad | The New Yorker, August 27, 1984 | Forty Stories (1987) |
The Art Of Baseball | The Spirit of Sport (1984) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Construction | The New Yorker, April 29, 1985 | Forty Stories (1987) |
When I Didn't Win... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, September 2, 1985 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Basil From Her Garden | The New Yorker, October 13, 1985 | |
Bluebeard | The New Yorker, June 16, 1986 | Forty Stories (1987) |
More Zero | The New Yorker, July 7, 1986 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
My Lover Said to Me... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, August 11, 1986 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
January | The New Yorker, April 6, 1987 | Forty Stories (1987) |
Three Great Meals | The New Yorker, June 1, 1987 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Author | The New Yorker, June 15, 1987 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Jaws | The New Yorker, August 17, 1987 | Forty Stories (1987) |
Chablis | The New Yorker, December 12, 1983 | Forty Stories (1987) |
On the Deck | The New Yorker, January 12, 1987 | Forty Stories (1987) |
Opening | Forty Stories (1987) | |
Rif | Forty Stories (1987) | |
Tickets | The New Yorker, March 6, 1989 | Flying to America (2008) |
Title | Originally published in |
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Ming | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Bliss | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Wasteland! | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Heather | Flying to America (2008) |
Pandemonium | Flying to America (2008) |
Title | Notes | Collected in |
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The Friends of the Family | Written as a radio play; includes sections from "For I'm the Boy" and "The Big Broadcast of 1938" | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
The Conservatory | Written as a radio play; includes sections from "On the Steps of the Conservatory" and "Great Days" | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Snow White | Adapted from the novel of the same name | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
Great Days | Adapted from the story of the same name first produced off-Broadway at American Place Theater, 1983 |
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Donald Barthelme was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of Fiction, and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
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The Best American Short Stories 2006, a volume in The Best American Short Stories series, was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Ann Patchett. This edition is notable in that it was the last edition edited by Katrina Kenison, who was succeeded by Heidi Pitlor the following year. Also, Patchett chose to present the stories in reverse-alphabetical order.
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Tracy Daugherty is an American author. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sixty Stories is a collection of sixty short stories written by Donald Barthelme, several of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. The book was first published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1981.
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Snow White is a post-modernist novel by author Donald Barthelme published in 1967 by Atheneum Books. The book inverts the fairy tale of the same name by highlighting the form by discussing the different expectations and compromises the characters make to survive in their world. This is done through Barthelme's fragmentary rhetoric and discourse, by shifting perspectives from the seven "dwarves" or Snow White herself, as well as the wicked step-mother, "Jane". It was Barthelme's first novel, published seven years after he started having his short stories published in literary magazines and publications such as The New Yorker.
Paradise is a 1986 novel by American writer Donald Barthelme. The novel concerns an architect, Simon, and his creation of an apparent paradise for himself.