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 (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

  2. 2.
    The Third Policeman
    by Flann O'Brien

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

  4. 4.
    Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

  8. 8.
    Nog
    by Rudy Wurlitzer

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

  10. 10.
    The Assistant
    by Bernard Malamud

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

  12. 12.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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

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

  15. 15.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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

  17. 17.
    Man in the Holocene
    by Max Frisch

  18. 18.
    Seven Gothic Tales
    by Isak Dinesen

  19. 19.
    Gogols Wife and Other Stories
    by Tommaso Landolfi

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

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

  22. 22.
    The Blood Oranges: A Novel
    by John Hawkes

  23. 24.
    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
    by Grace Paley

  24. 25.
    I, Etcetera
    by Susan SONTAG

  25. 26.
    Tell Me a Riddle
    by Tillie Olsen

  26. 28.
    Henderson, the Rain King
    by Saul Bellow

  27. 29.
    The Coup
    by John Updike

  28. 30.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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

  30. 33.
    Superfiction
    by ed. Joe David Bellamy

  31. 34.
    ?

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

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

  34. 37.
    ?
    Documents of Modern Art
    by ed. Motherwell

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

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

  37. 40.
    The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880 (Vol. 2)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  38. 42.
    ?
    The Changeling
    by Joy Williams

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

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

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

  42. 46.
    Searching for Caleb
    by Anne Tyler

  43. 47.
    ?
    Thank You and Other Poems
    by Kenneth Koch

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

  45. 49.
    ?
    Rivers and Mountains
    by John Ashbery

  46. 50.
    ?
    Tragic Magic
    by Wesley Brown

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eighty-one, eighty-two — 3 years ago

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




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