I subscribe to a monthly fiction podcast offered by The New Yorker and yesterday listened twice to Donald Antrim read Donald Barthelme's short story, I Bought a Little City. It was my first exposure to Barthelme and it won't be my last - Sixty Stories is destined to join my ever-growing book tower and, in the meantime, I'm working my way through the Barthelme on Jessamyn West's web site. So much to read, so little time...
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Donald Barthelme | I Bought a Little City [MP3]
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Donald Barthelme | I Bought a Little City [MP3]
I just started subscribing to that podcast myself and LOVED the Barthelme story. I've read his work before, but not that one. It was amazing and I thought Antrim's comments on why he chose it were just as fascinating as the story.
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking to my review of "The School."
ReplyDeleteI hope to read more of Barthelme in the up coming months.
Thanks again!
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ReplyDeleteDonald Barthelme has created so much traffic on my site that I put of a longer second post: http://soullessmachine.blogspot.com/2008/02/school-by-donald-barthelme-round-2.html
Thanks again!