Barthelme

[bahr-thuhl-mey, ‑tl-mee]

noun

1. Donald, 1931–89, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.

2. his brother Frederick, born 1943, U.S. short-story writer and novelist.

Example Sentences

Daugherty has also been around the block; he is the author of biographies of Joan Didion, Joseph Heller and Donald Barthelme.

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Nesbit had a serious relationship with the author Donald Barthelme before she married Gilman, and one day, Barthelme telegrammed her from Europe.

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He was the smirking successor of Vonnegut and Barthelme, a big-idea humorist with some postmodern acrobatics tossed in.

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Can we compare him to gumbo, his style a stew of influences encompassing such unlikely pairings as William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer and Grace Paley, William Trevor and Donald Barthelme?

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She’s less playful than the minimalist Barthelme, and less liquidly philosophical than Iris Murdoch.

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