Barthelme's

Barthelme's second wife recalled that he wrote it in the "spring of 1961" and then struggled to sell it to a magazine.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Barthelme's story finally saw print in his book in 1964, coincidentally the year of the "New Look" Batman.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Presumably a story like Donald Barthelme's "The Balloon" is the sort of thing Massie has in mind (although he gives no examples at all of the sort of thing he does have in mind).

Saying Something 2010

Notmany of Donald Barthelme's stories, for example would be able to pass the "clock" test administered by Grimes.

Writing and Publishing 2010

Barthelme's story finally saw print in his book in 1964, coincidentally the year of the "New Look" Batman.

“Robin, who was supposed to be at Andover,...” 2009

Notmany of Donald Barthelme's stories, for example would be able to pass the "clock" test administered by Grimes.

Our Stories 2009

Notmany of Donald Barthelme's stories, for example would be able to pass the "clock" test administered by Grimes.

October 2009 2009

Barthelme's second wife recalled that he wrote it in the "spring of 1961" and then struggled to sell it to a magazine.

“Robin, who was supposed to be at Andover,...” 2009

           A few of ourcompadresin Barthelme's school were “waiting” to walk through the door of the “establishment.”

Hoss Men (divided) 2010

This collection presents all of Barthelme's previously unpublished and uncollected short fiction, as well as work not published in his two compendium editions, Sixty Stories and Forty Stories.

August 2007 2007