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newtestleper posted:He's my favorite writer. His short stories are what he's known for. Sixty stories contains most of his most famous stories. Barthelmes the dead father book is pretty swank. There are some great lines and ideas. Some pages of non attributed dialogue work across the page. I first was turned into him through his short short story "the school" If you dig his stuff, I also recommend his brothers work, Frederick Barthelme. It's good but in a very different way. while Donald creates metafiction that mocks/highlights how fake language can be, Frederick creates tilts in the other direction by creating hyper-real work that is detached from generating a concrete idea of reality but instead creates an incredibly "hallucination-powered" representation: "filled with alien people on a world very much like ours with achingly pristine language An easy example: "Hyperreal fiction not only reflects the condition of commodification [in relation to capitalism and desire] in postmodern society but also thematizes it: Donald Barthelme writes in a short story in 1979 posted:Went to the grocery store and Xeroxed a box of English muffins, two pounds of ground veal and an apple. In flagrant violation of the Copyright act.' and Frederick's 1983 "Safeway" is similar but very different: " Fredrick barthelme Safeway 1983 posted:You look at her shoes. They are high-helped, buff colored. "Hi," you say. She doesn't stop, only pushes on toward the front of the store. You race in the opposite direction, trying to get the waffles and the TV Guide and find her checkout line for a last look, but the store is out of the waffles you want, Kellogg's, so you take the house brand -- small squares in a clear plastic bag." Jameson, another author, relates in his essay: "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" that consumer objects glow with a hallucinatory energy. Desire in all its forms is now lifted from any kind of grounding and is free to float from people (notably women) to consumer objects whose colors seem intense and hyperreal.... quote:Go on -- buy one," says a girl walking by. You turn and watch her shoulders; you do want something, suddenly, so you go back to the medical supplies and select the Curad bandages, because the package is green." ... Frederick has a little bio section on his website talking about how his own writing evolved so distinctly different from his brother and it's cool.
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Anyone read George Saunders new Lincoln in the Bardo?
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