Books
A visitor having dinner with Frederick Barthelme, bard of suburban disconnectedness, has driven out from New Orleans to an obscure college town bristling with fast-food signs, onto a campus whose students can’t seem to say where the English department is.
Aug. 20, 1986
“Forty Stories” is Donald Barthelme’s 14th book.
Oct. 18, 1987
Donald Barthelme, whose minimalist style in short stories and novels made him one of the leading innovators in modern fiction, died Sunday of cancer at the University of Texas’ M.
July 25, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
The flood of contemporary information, trivial and choked, has risen in Donald Barthelme’s world and is sweeping away almost every landmark of discrimination and value.
Nov. 19, 1992
Flying to America 45 More Stories; Donald Barthelme; Shoemaker & Hoard: 332 pp., $26
Nov. 25, 2007
The messages of modern life undermine life. The feedback is poisoned.
Nov. 2, 1986
PORTRAIT OF MY BODY by Phillip Lopate (Anchor Books: $22.95, 325 pp.).
Sept. 8, 1996
It is the clown car joke, reversed and grandly expanded.
Feb. 12, 1997
The 10 female characters speak directly to the audience of their wounds of body and soul, but some parts overwhelm others.
Dec. 5, 1996
“Epigraph” is a terrible novel, not worth reading. More about this later.
April 13, 1997