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Donald Barthelme

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Literary Musings: Brett Easton Ellis, Margaret Atwood, Donald Barthelme, Philip Roth...

 

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Roger Angell on Reading Donald Barthelme

 

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"The School" by Donald Barthelme

 

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the first thing the baby did wrong....

 

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Barthelme's Snow White is Awesome

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.