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Search All of Salon.com Directory Hot Topics Iraq Joe Conason's Journal The Sopranos Osama bin Laden ... World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks Articles by date All of Salon.com By department Find a job Access your PC from Anywhere ... Corrections The confessed minimalist's new book proves that the much-reviled genre can still break your heart. By Jonathan Miles Chief counsel for the defense was Frederick Barthelme, or Barthelme the Younger, as John Updike is fond of referring to him, who laid out minimalism's merits in a 1988 New York Times Book Review essay titled "On Being Wrong: Convicted Minimalist Spills Beans." He passed along this advice to his fellow pecked-at minimalists: Tell them [the naysayers] that you prefer to think you're leaving room for the readers, at least for the ones who like to use their imaginations; that you hope those readers hear the whispers, catch the feints and shadows, gather the traces, sense the pressures, and that meanwhile the prose tricks them into the drama, and the drama breaks their hearts. Just like old times. By now, of course, 1988 seems like old times; and while these sorts of aesthetic wars are never actually won, so to speak, it's safe to say that the bells have indeed tolled for minimalism's reign over American fiction. Thus, the publication of "The Law of Averages," a mostly retrospective anthology of Barthelme's short fiction, presents us with a grand opportunity to peer backward, with the slight cushion of history and without aesthetic rancor, at what Barthelme and by extension the minimalist ethos was able to do: that is, whether the prose does the trick, whether it can still, two decades later, break our hearts.

22. Frederick Barthelme: Driver, Short Story DRIVER frederick barthelme. Please see our conditions of use. authorbio frederick barthelme is the author of eleven books of fiction. http://www.barcelonareview.com/22/e_fb.htm

home navigation issue 22: January -February 2001 spanish translation author bio DRIVER Frederick Barthelme RITA SAYS the living-room lights keep her awake when she goes to bed before I do, which is most of the time. The light comes down the hall and under the bedroom door, she says, and in the dark it's like a laser. So on Sunday, after she'd gone to bed, I started to read Money In the morning I left a note attached to the refrigerator with the tiny TV-dinner magnet, telling Rita what time I'd be home from the office, then got in the Celica and headed for the freeway. I'd been in traffic for half an hour, most of it behind a bald, architect-looking guy in a BMW 2002 when I saw a sign for Kleindienst Highway Auto Sales. This was a hand-painted sign, one quarter billboard size, in a vacant lot alongside the freeway - a rendering of a customized 1947 Ford. I got off at the next exit and went back up the feeder to get to this place, which was a shell-paved lot with a house trailer at the rear, strings of silver and gold decorations above, and a ten-foot Cyclone fence topped with knife wire. A guy jumped out of the trailer the minute I got onto the property. He followed me until I parked, then threw an arm around my shoulders before I had my car door shut. "Howdy," he said. "Phil Kleindienst. Hunting a big beauty, am I right?"

23. Tracer By Frederick Barthelme - Counterpoint TRACER frederick barthelme, frederick barthelme is a gifted writer. frederickbarthelme is the author of eleven books of fiction. http://www.counterpointpress.com/1582431299.html

"The genius of Barthelme's jazzed-up comic art is to look at life's familiar, junky stuff and, by some act of affection, make it mysteriously new." The New Yorker "A searing, startling and honest piece of work." Boston Globe "Tracer is stylistically lean and hungry, shrewd in observation, full of brittle dialogue and dry wit . . . This is a book with afterburn." Chicago Tribune "Frederick Barthelme is doing for the '80s what Raymond Chandler did for the '30s. He does for the 7-Eleven what Edward Hopper did for the all-night diner." Baltimore Sun Frederick Barthelme Photo by A.M. Fortenberry TRACER Frederick Barthelme "Frederick Barthelme is a gifted writer. His ear for dialogue is nearly impeccable, and his imagery and lyricism can be heartfelt and haunting." The New York Times Book Review A chronicle of the divorces and recouplings of the author's own generation, Tracer is a terse, surrealistic, and moving portrait of life in America.

24. Natural Selection By Frederick Barthelme - Counterpoint NATURAL SELECTION frederick barthelme, Other frederick barthelme titlespublished by Counterpoint Tracer The Brothers The Law of Averages. http://www.counterpointpress.com/1582431310.html

"By turns funny and sad, lyrical and antic, dazzling and exasperating, Natural Selection emerges as perhaps Mr. Barthelme's strongest novel yet." The New York Times "With a keen eye, a sharp tongue, and an open heart Barthelme plumbs the depths of love and marriage in a contemporary American landscape." Philadelphia Inquirer "As a chronicler of the ranch-tract frontier, Barthelme has an extraordinary ear for the off-key notes being played there." Boston Globe Frederick Barthelme Photo by A. M. Fortenberry NATURAL SELECTION Frederick Barthelme Finally restored to print, Frederick Barthelme's classic novel about love, marriage, and one man's search for something more. Peter Wexler is unhappy. He's forty and obsessed with what's wrong in the world, including his marriage, a thirty-something version of Ozzie and Harriet. Deciding a change of scenery might help put his life back in order, Peter leaves his wonderful wife and their ten-year-old son in search of a resolution to the confusion, estrangement, fatigue, and adultery that have confounded his life. Natural Selection is an intimate novel about a man getting smart, and getting there a little later than he should have. It's caustic and subtle, slick and funny, charming, deeply melancholy, and more than anything else, true.

25. ESCENE 1996: Frederick Barthelme frederick barthelme is author of nine books including Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage,Tracer, Two Against One, Natural Selection, The Brothers, and Painted Desert http://www.escene.org/escene1996/espresso/e_barthelme.html

fb@netdoor.com "Spots" Frederick Barthelme is author of nine books including Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage, Tracer, Two Against One, Natural Selection, The Brothers, and Painted Desert . He is an occasional contributor to The New Yorker and has published in GQ, Kansas Quarterly, Epoch, Playboy, Esquire, TriQuarterly, North American Review, Frank, etc. He teaches writing at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he also edits the Mississippi Review "As for 'Spots,' I remember it as a piece of a novel that I was so fond of that I took it out and rewrote it after-the-fact to make it this story of brother-wife-coveting. I liked particularly the sense of the ending leaning far out of the frame, headed somewhere difficult." eSCENE 1996 Information

26. Barth: Other Resources: Blurbs frederick barthelme, Moon Deluxe The author of Moon Deluxe is a brightstar in the constellation of new American short story writers. . http://www.dave-edelman.com/barth/blurbs.cfm

The John Barth Info Center Other Resources > Blurbs Barth Blurbs "His vows to the muse... prohibited among other things the blurbing of blurbs except for first books by his former apprentices at our joint alma mater." Coming Soon!!! , p. 361 "I mean, does a blurb by John Barth on a young novelist's book mean anything? Don't you just assume this was a nice kid in one of his classes at Hopkins?" In an effort to compile all the random trivia involving John Barth's life, I've started here a page listing his promotional blurbs for other authors. Lord knows what use this list is, other than to help promote the authors that Barth sees fit to promote. Please drop me a line if you find any more! (Thanks to Kris Majer, Steve Mattingly, Tim Kaczmarek and Patrick Maguire.) Clicking on a book's title will take you to that book's listing on Amazon.com. A 1979 sketch of Mr. Barth by David Levine Peter Baida, A Nurse's Story and Others "What a gifted storyteller we lost when Peter Baida died so young! Tough love and unsentimental compassion for the old, infirm, and fallen run through these wise and moving stories. In several of the best of them, one feels a whole novel's worth of life." Donald Barthelme,

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30. The Brothers (in MARION) The brothers. Title The brothers a novel / by frederick barthelme. Authorbarthelme, frederick, 1943. Published New York Viking, 1993. http://www.ccpl.org/MARION/ABF-6135

The brothers Title: The brothers : a novel / by Frederick Barthelme. Author: Barthelme, Frederick, 1943- Published: New York : Viking, 1993. Subject: Biloxi (Miss.) Fiction. Brothers Fiction. Material: 262 p. ; 23 cm. Note: After Del Tribute almost sleeps with his brother's wife, the brothers set out to trace and detail the inticate pattern of consequence of this near-indiscretion. ISBN: System ID no: ABF-6135 Holdings: MAIN CALL NUMBER: Fiction Book Available If you have a valid library card, you may place a hold on this title for pickup at the library. Please send comments, suggestions, or bug reports to webmaster

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Brothers Fiction. Records 1 to 25 of 102 Amadeo, Diana. There's a little bit of me in Jamey / Diana Amadeo ; illustrated by Judith Friedman. Niles, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1989. Holdings: MAIN-Children's Room CALL NUMBER: [J] Fiction Juv Book Available Holdings at other locations: See the additional holdings for this title. Antrim, Donald. The hundred brothers : a novel / Donald Antrim. New York : Crown Pub., c1997. MAIN CALL NUMBER: Fiction Book Route Holdings at other locations: See the additional holdings for this title. Axinn, Donald E. The ego makers / Donald Everett Axinn. New York : Arcade Pub., c1998. MAIN CALL NUMBER: Fiction Book Available CALL NUMBER: Fiction Book Available Baillie, Allan, 1943- Little brother / Allan Baillie. New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1992. Holdings at other locations: See the additional holdings for this title. Barthelme, Frederick, 1943- The brothers : a novel / by Frederick Barthelme. New York : Viking, 1993. MAIN CALL NUMBER: Fiction Book Available Bess, Clayton. cn

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Updated 6-Mar-03 Literature Ableman, Paul. I Hear Voices. Paris: Olympia Press, [1957]. 16mo, 219pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Some rubbing to dust jacket. $45 Surprising, often comic tale told from the point of view of a schizophrenic. First edition. Baldwin, James. Phono LP. Black Man in America. Cambridge, Mass: Credo, [1965?]. Credo 1. Long playing record album. Album cover design by Erik von Schmidt. Fine. $100 An interview with Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. Barthelme, Frederick. Rangoon. NYC: Winter House, 1970. 8vo, 195pp, illustrated. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine except for a chip at crown of spine. $125 Barthelme, Frederick. War and War. Garden City: Doubleday, [1971]. 8vo, 190pp, illustrated. Wrappers. Excellent copy. $75 Rangoon, this book is now practically disowned by its author. Mayo Thompson reappears in War and War. First edition. Bax, Martin. The Hospital Ship. London: Jonathan Cape, [1976]. 8vo, 219pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. Fine. $30 Chilling allegory of civilization in eclipse, set on a hospital ship that makes occasional, unavoidable visits to the horrific mainland. A pediatrician by profession, Bax published the avant garde magazine Ambit, nurturing the careers of J. G. Ballard, Edwin Brock, Eduardo Paolozzi, and others. First edition. Blier, Bertrand.

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