Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme
1931 - 1989
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At the crossroads of flash fiction and non sequitur you will find the micro-stories of Donald Barthelme: exceptionally compact, focusing on incident rather than narrative. Naturally, he had admirers and detractors, being hailed as profoundly disciplined or derided as meaningless.

• A Work by de Kooning and a Story by Barthelme
• A City of Churches

(A Life in Books)