Donald Barthelme (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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The son of an avant-garde Houston architect, Donald Barthelme inherited his father’s sense of irony, humor, and iconoclasm and applied it to his writing. After serving as a reporter in the Army and for the Houston Post, he first became director for Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, then moved to New York City to edit Location, an arts magazine. The formal techniques of painting, sculpture, graphics, and other fine arts influenced his writing.

Barthelme published his first short piece, “L’Lapse,” in The New Yorker, in...

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