The Early Posthumous Work - Softcover

Barthelme, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597093882 ISBN 13: 9781597093880

Publisher: Red Hen Press, 2010

Synopsis

A collection of essays and occasional pieces on gambling, teaching, snakes, dogs, cars, hitchhiking, marriage and sophistication, memory and work, and a dozen other subjects. One essay announces that the two dollar bill can buy happiness and reports some resistance to this discovery. Another studies the art of life as a ne'er-do-well, a sort of prequel to the "slacker" phenomenon, written and published in Austin, Texas. In yet another essay, everyone's first name is Philip, (except the comet). Certain liberties are taken with the form. Pieces originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Oxford American, the Texas Observer, Connecticut Review, Apalachee Quarterly, and other newspapers, magazines, and anthologies.

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About the Author

Steven Barthelme has published short stories extensively in periodicals, in Pushcart and other anthologies, and in the collection And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story. A memoir, Double Down, co-authored with his brother Frederick, was issued by Houghton Mifflin in 1999. With a long-time interest in non-fiction, he has written pieces for the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Texas Observer, Oxford American, and other newspapers, magazines, and quarterlies. He writes and teaches in Mississippi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597093882
• ISBN 13: 9781597093880
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192