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Donald Barthelme Syllabus

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200310/article_moffett.php

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

(found at: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200310/article_moffett.php)

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1. At Swim-Two-Birds (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
2. The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
3. The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
by Isaac Babel
  
4. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
5. Other Inquisitions: 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
6.
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
  
7. Correction (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by Thomas Bernhard
  
8.
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 Nog
by Rudy Wurlitzer
  
9. Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  
10. The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
  
11. The Magic Barrel: Stories
by Bernard Malamud
  
12. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
13. Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
by Malcolm Lowry
  
14.
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 Samuel Beckett (complete works)
by Samuel Beckett
  
15. Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
  
16. I'm Not Stiller (A Harvest Book)
by Max Frisch
  
17. Man in the Holocene (Swiss Literature)
by Max Frisch
  
18. Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen
  
19.
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 Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
by Tommaso Landolfi
  
20. V. (Perennial Classics)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
21. The Lime Twig (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by John Hawkes
  
22. The Blood Oranges
by John Hawkes
  
23. The Little Disturbances of Man (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Grace Paley
  
24. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
by Grace Paley
  
25. I, Etcetera
by Susan SONTAG
  
26. Tell Me a Riddle
by Tillie Olsen
  
27. The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
  
28. Henderson the Rain King
by Saul Bellow
  
29. The Coup
by John Updike
  
30. Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
  
31. The Paris Review Interviews, I (Paris Review Interviews)
by The Paris Review
  
32.
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 How We Live; Contemporary Life in Contemporary Fiction: An Anthology
by L. Rust Hill.
  
33.
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 Superfiction
by ed. Joe David Bellamy
  
34.
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 Pushcart Prize anthologies (1976-?)  
35. The Writer on Her Work, Volume 1
by Janet Sternberg
  
36. Manifestoes of Surrealism (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
by Andre Breton
  
37.
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 Documents of Modern Art
by ed. Motherwell
  
38. Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
by Susan Sontag
  
39. A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
by Hugh Kenner
  
40.
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 The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880
by Gustave Flaubert
  
41.
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 Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations: Two Plays
by David Mamet
  
42.
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 The Changeling
by Joy Williams
  
43.
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 The New Fiction: Interviews With Innovative American Writers
by Joe David Bellamy
  
44. Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien
  
45.
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 The Palm-Wine Drunkard
by Amos Tutola
  
46. Searching for Caleb
by Anne Tyler
  
47.
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 Thank You and Other Poems
by Kenneth Koch
  
48. The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
by Frank O'Hara
  
49.
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 Rivers and Mountains
by John Ashbery
  
50.
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 Tragic Magic
by Wesley Brown
  
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