On Barthelme and seredipity
| December 23, 2009 | Filled under Internerd |
It may be confirmation bias but I’m been reading about, hearing mentions of and getting recommendations for Donald Barthelme’s work a lot lately. It started earlier this year when I read The School for my creative writing workshop. I am ashamed to admit I had never read him before.
Over on MetaFilter, someone has linked to a 2003 copy of The Believer featuring a story on Barthelme and the reading list he assigned to students. The Believer has scanned the hand-scribbled list but you can also see a text version of the list.
His own book, 60 Stories is on my own personal reading list, but until I get around to buying it, I’m going to tide myself over with Jessamyn West’s collection of Barthelme links.
One more thing — I am currently a proud student of the fruits of Barthelme’s labor. He founded the Creative Writing Department at the University of Houston.
