Donald Barthelme is a winner of the National Book Award and is the author of over seventeen books, including Flying to America, City Life (one of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year), and Sixty Stories, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he taught for many years. He died in 1989.
Praise for The Teachings of Don B.
"Barthelme's art was pre-eminently one of surprises, darting from
satire to lyricism to poker-faced banality in a single
paragraph.... The Teachings of Don B. is a small education in
laughter, melancholy and the English language." -The New York Times
Book Review
"Donald Barthelme may have influenced the short story in his time
as much as Hemingway and O'Hara did in theirs." -New York Times
"Barthelme happens to be one of a handful of American authors,
there to make us look bad, who know instinctively how to stash the
merchandise, bamboozle the inspectors, and smuggle their nocturnal
contraband right on past the checkpoints of daylight 'reality.'"
-Thomas Pynchon, from the Introduction
Praise for Donald Barthelme
"Donald barthelme almost single-handedly has revived the genre of
the short story and made it into a fresh art form... He can, and
does, write stories of every kind." -People
"Probably the most perversely gifted writer in the United States."
-Life
"Among the leading innovative writers of modern fiction." -New York
Times
"The delight he offers readers is beyond question; his
individuality is unmatched." -Los Angeles Times
"Alongside Raymond Carver, the most emulated short story writer in
America." -Chris Power, The Guardian
"A sophisticated entertainer and an elegant stylist...There are New
Yorker captions which would look at home in Barthelme's dialogue,
just as there are lines in his stories which the cartoonists might
envy." -Patrick Parrinder, London Review of Books
"Barthelme's fiction is affected, weightless, utterly original. One
wouldn't have it any other way." -Arizona Republic
"Every sentence I read makes me want to stop and write something of
my own. He fires all of my synapses and connects them in new ways.
He sends a herd of wildebeest through my mind. It's a whole jungle
full of animals, really, every color and shape, and he sends them
scurrying all over my brain, screaming, defecating, fornicating."
-Dave Eggers, author of The Circle
"One of the great citizens of contemporary world letters." -Robert
Coover, author of Going for a Beer
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