Sixty Stories

Forty Stories

“Eccentric, dazzling…the literary conversation piece of the year.” –San Francisco Chronicl...

The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful bein...

The wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America'...

With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of ...

In The King, a retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of t...

'Barthleme may have been radical in his time, but he's perfectly suited to our own.' -Houston Chr...

'No other word for it: a charming book.' Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek

Sixty-three rare or previously uncollected works by a master of the American short story form

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers...

The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable i...