Not-Knowing
The Essays and Interviews
Published on 28. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-59376-173-8 (ISBN)
Description
The wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering "Melancholy Baby" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called "one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59376-173-8 (9781593761738)
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Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 July 23, 1989) was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (19611962), co-founder of Fiction (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.