Barthelme
Americannoun
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Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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his brother Frederick, born 1943, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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Daugherty has also been around the block; he is the author of biographies of Joan Didion, Joseph Heller and Donald Barthelme.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023
He was the smirking successor of Vonnegut and Barthelme, a big-idea humorist with some postmodern acrobatics tossed in.
From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2022
But he was also absorbed by the cinema, particularly the darkly comic animations of the Czech filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, and even more by the pyrotechnical postmodern literature of Donald Barthelme and Robert Coover.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021
Barthelme found the semicolon “ugly as a tick on a dog’s belly.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
The writings of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Barthe are not casual reading, for sheer enjoyment or excitement.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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