A glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a 'beautiful, enchanted symbol'...
''I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect...
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's...
"e;I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - play...
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful bein...
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning chi...
With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of ...
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's...
Dunkirk has fallen, the Americans have not yet entered the war, and King Arthur and his Knights o...