One reviewer called Barthelme's literary terrain "the cratered landscape of the broken heart.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Wrote His Songs] Reference

But this just makes me want you to read Barthelme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference

Donald Barthelme: "ugly as a tick on a dog's belly".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

And he is a master at quoting Barthelme against himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

Once again, Barthelme is becoming an M. F.A.-program icon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome Back, Alice] Reference

At his worst, Barthelme was intoxicated with his own complexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference

Here is a second round review of THE SCHOOL by Donald Barthelme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

American writers of the 1960s: Barth, Coover, Barthelme, Pynchon.    From Wordnik.com.  [RIP] Reference

Donald Barthelme, for example, stays away from the breakfast table.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 August 20 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

This time, as on many previous occasions, she picks the wrong Barthelme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Barthelme] Reference

But look at Barthelme in Snow White, and you won't find a finer example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congratulations to Jane Fonda!] Reference

"I have trouble reading, in these days," Barthelme says to an interviewer.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

Lake lifted off, believing he also had Barthelme aboard, but he was wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bivens, Herndon A.] Reference

When Barthelme ghostwrote a college assignment for his daughter, it got a D.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference

If you took a course from Barthelme that required books, he bought the books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: The New Henry Miller Speaks Out: Interview With Eric Miles Williamson, Author of 'Welcome to Oakland'] Reference

I feel even Mr. High Post Modern Barthelme may be suggesting we should create.    From Wordnik.com.  [meggie816 Diary Entry] Reference

One of my friends got a girl pregnant, and Barthelme gave him a thousand bucks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: The New Henry Miller Speaks Out: Interview With Eric Miles Williamson, Author of 'Welcome to Oakland'] Reference

But what quickly becomes clear is that Barthelme died both too old and too young.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference

Barthelme indeed loved songs but worked hard to avoid any explicit sentimentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Wrote His Songs] Reference

Barthelme had scarcely settled into teaching writing before he was himself written off.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference

"Edward worried about his drinking," Barthelme wrote in the early story "Edward and Pia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Wrote His Songs] Reference

As one might imagine, Barthelme was often queried about the origin and timing of his story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard] Reference

The only identifiable thing about Barthelme was the green St. Mary's County t-shirt he wore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bivens, Herndon A.] Reference

Am I classy for refusing to go into how almost completely wrong Super Dave is about Barthelme?.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s Official: Dave Eggers is as Edgy as Formica : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

Donald Barthelme: “The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference

Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the twentieth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying to My Bookshelf] Reference

Robert Hunt Bringing the gallery to the typewriter, Barthelme frolicked in the marvelously askew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference

Vidal is brusque, no-nonsense; let's get on with the chore, imply his brief, Barthelme-like sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Dispraise] Reference

He writes about Porter and Frost, Barthelme and Styron, Dos Passos and Hemingway, politics and culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Reviews] Reference

Finally, I interviewed Barthelme on the subject, and here is our exchange, published in New Ohio Review.    From Wordnik.com.  [Me] Reference

           Barthelme had picked G.W. as best, G.W., not G.W.H., who was best at Gardner's school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoss Men (divided)] Reference

Barthelme would hand-deliver student manuscripts to editors of literary journals and New York publishing houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: The New Henry Miller Speaks Out: Interview With Eric Miles Williamson, Author of 'Welcome to Oakland'] Reference

Margaret Drabble and A.S. Byatt are sisters, and the three Barthelme brothers have all published multiple books.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Praise of Nepotism] Reference

And for gossip Daugherty lets us in on a brief affair Barthelme had with Grace Paley (all that short story heat!).    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Wrote His Songs] Reference

Salman Rushdie tells Mr. Daugherty that Barthelme was "so drunk that I had the feeling of not really having met him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering of Experiment] Reference

Barthelme and Gass appeared together, with some other writers, on a panel once; Ann Beattie was in the audience, frowning at Gass.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Eating William Gass?] Reference

Paley lived across the street from him on West 11th Street and Barthelme dedicated his sixth collection of stories, Amateurs, to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [How He Wrote His Songs] Reference