Barthelme
[ bahr-thuhl-mey, ‐tl-mee ]
/ ˈbɑr θəlˌmeɪ, ‐tl mi /
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noun
Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
his brother, Frederick, born 1943, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.
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How to use Barthelme in a sentence
This Regular version sometimes sounds like the near sequiturs of Gertrude Stein or her clever admirer Donald Barthelme.
Very dry, precise, sort of magical—what Donald Barthelme used to call the little nut hard word.