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John Barth's brief description of Donald Barthelme's so-called postmodernist dinners

Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940) In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called postmodernist dinners, both of which I’ve written on this blog before. …though [Barthelme] tsked at the critical tendency to group certain writers against certain others ”as if we were football teams” –…

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John Barth's brief description of Donald Barthelme's so-called postmodernist dinners

John Barth’s brief description of Donald Barthelme’s so-called postmodernist dinners

Photograph from “The Postmodernists Dinner,” 1983 by Jill Krementz (b. 1940) In John Barth’s 1989 New York Times eulogy for Donald Barthelme, Barth gives a brief description of two so-called postmodernist dinners, both of which I’ve written on this blog before. …though [Barthelme] tsked at the critical tendency to group certain writers against certain others ”as if we were football teams” –…

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Don was there, as well as William Gass, Stanley Elkin, William Gaddis, and half a dozen others of the postmodernist bent.

  The New Yorker: Last week, there was a three-day festival in your honor at Brown University, in Providence—titled, in part, “Celebrating the Unspeakable Practices of Robert Coover”—featuring appearances by many of your colleagues and admirers, including T. C. Boyle, Don DeLillo, Alexandra Kleeman, Marlon James, Edwidge Danticat, Paul Auster, and many others. What was the stimulus for the…

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