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Pronunciation: [dˈɒnə͡ld bˈɑːθɛlmɪ] (IPA)

Donald Barthelme is a renowned American writer who is best known for his unique and experimental style of writing. Some popular synonyms for the name "Donald Barthelme" include avant-garde writer, experimental fiction author, postmodernist novelist, and literary innovator. Barthelme's works are often characterized by their unconventional narrative structures, fragmented prose, and use of pop culture references. Some of his most famous works include "Snow White," "The Dead Father," and "Sixty Stories." Despite passing away in 1989, Barthelme's influence on contemporary literature can still be seen today, and his contributions to the literary world continue to be recognized and celebrated.

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  • Donald Barthelme has accomplished the work that the New Journalists are not competent to do. In a single story he is able to include more of the taste of the times than there is in the collected works of Wolfe, Breslin, Talese & Co. The difference lies in Barthelme’s ability to compress, almost to transistorize the world, and then make his miniatures real again by virtue of his talent for language.
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  • "The Balloon" is a Donald Barthelme story. … In a 1996 interview, David [Foster Wallace] told Laura Miller it was "the first story I ever read that made me want to be a writer."
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  • “How come you write the way you do?” an apprentice writer in my Johns Hopkins workshop once disingenuously asked Donald Barthelme, who was visiting. Without missing a beat, Donald replied, “Because Samuel Beckett was already writing the way does.” Asked another, likewise disingenuosly, “How can we become better writers than we are?” “For starters," DB advised, “read through the whole history of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics up through last semester. That might help.” “But Coach Barth has already advised us to read all of , from Gilgamesh up through last semester....” “That, too,” Donald affirmed, and turned on that shrewd Amish-farmer-from-West-Eleventh-Street twinkle of his. “You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.”
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