#frederick barthelme

[contac]

[jonathanjudge]

[swartzmark]

"This empty world needs a witness, though, and [Frederick] Barthelme is it." Washington Post review of Tracer (1985)

[davidhudson]

Happy 80th, Frederick Barthelme.

[kamreadsandrecs]

The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s “Box Step”

As Johnny Carson used to say (this, or some variation, often enough that he was made fun of for doing it), “That was weird wild stuff.” Addi

[kammartinez]

The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s “Box Step”

As Johnny Carson used to say (this, or some variation, often enough that he was made fun of for doing it), “That was weird wild stuff.” Addi

[mauveandrosysky]

I considered these things: When is thinking carefully the same as cowardice? When is avoidance cowardice? Is it cowardly to evade and dodge, to leave by the side door, to step out of the way? Is it fear that makes a person behave ‘properly’ and in accordance with one or another code of conduct? Must one seek always to attack and destroy an enemy? Must one regard the other as the enemy, always? Is ‘settling for’ something less than what you aspired to a kind of cowardice, or is it pragmatism or just good sense? Must one always pretend to be the hero? These and other questions preoccupied me as I motored through the second decade of the 21st-century, widowed, divorced, alone.

There Must Be Some Mistake by Frederick Barthelme

[mauveandrosysky]

- Frederick Barthelme