Donald Barthelme Syllabus

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Attack the books “in no particular order, just read them." – Barthelme’s recommendation to his students

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  1. 1.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

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  3. 3.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel

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  4. 5.
    Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  5. 6.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  6. 7.
    Correction (Phoenix Fiction Series)
    by Thomas Bernhard

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  7. 8.
    Nog
    by Rudy Wurlitzer

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  8. 9.
    Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
    by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  9. 10.
    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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  10. 11.
    The Magic Barrel: Stories
    by Bernard Malamud

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  11. 12.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  12. 13.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  13. 14.
    Samuel Beckett (complete works)
    by Samuel Beckett

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  14. 15.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  15. 16.
    I'm Not Stiller (A Harvest Book)
    by Max Frisch

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  16. 17.
    Man in the Holocene (Swiss Literature)
    by Max Frisch

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  17. 18.
    Seven Gothic Tales
    by Isak Dinesen

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  18. 19.
    Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
    by Tommaso Landolfi

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  19. 20.
    V. (Perennial Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  20. 21.
    The Lime Twig (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by John Hawkes

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  21. 22.
    The Blood Oranges
    by John Hawkes

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  22. 24.
    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
    by Grace Paley

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  23. 25.
    I, Etcetera
    by Susan SONTAG

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  24. 26.
    Tell Me a Riddle
    by Tillie Olsen

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  25. 27.
    The Hero with a Thousand Faces
    by Joseph Campbell

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  26. 28.
    Henderson the Rain King
    by Saul Bellow

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  27. 29.
    The Coup
    by John Updike

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  28. 30.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  29. 31.
    The Paris Review Interviews, I (Paris Review Interviews)
    by The Paris Review

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  30. 33.
    Superfiction
    by ed. Joe David Bellamy

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  32. 35.
    The Writer on Her Work, Volume 1
    by Janet Sternberg

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  33. 36.
    Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
    by Andre Breton

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    Documents of Modern Art
    by ed. Motherwell

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  35. 38.
    Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
    by Susan Sontag

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  36. 39.
    A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
    by Hugh Kenner

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    The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880
    by Gustave Flaubert

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    The Changeling
    by Joy Williams

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  39. 43.
    The New Fiction: Interviews With Innovative American Writers
    by Joe David Bellamy

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  40. 44.
    Going After Cacciato
    by Tim O'Brien

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  41. 45.
    The Palm-Wine Drunkard
    by Amos Tutola

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  42. 46.
    Searching for Caleb
    by Anne Tyler

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    Thank You and Other Poems
    by Kenneth Koch

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  44. 48.
    The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
    by Frank O'Hara

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    Rivers and Mountains
    by John Ashbery

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  46. 50.
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    Tragic Magic
    by Wesley Brown

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eighty-one, eighty-two — 47 weeks ago

The Believer can’t count. I double-checked and there is indeed eighty-two books and not a mere eighty-one.