Anonymous :
14 days ago :
No.9909
>>9918
>>9909
bartheleme's paris review interview gets into some writers he liked that aren't widely read today, sabatini, von kleist, sj perelman. i've only read kleist of the three and it's good but not particularly similar. you might try pricksongs and descants, barry hannah's stories, maybe george saunders. tonally the closest thing i can think of is actually a novella, speedboat by renata adler
Anything else like Barthelme you'd recommend? Specifically short stories. I'm finally getting near the end of his complete collection.
I got into James Tate around the same time as him, and they're different in a lot of ways, but I like both their sort of "stupid" stories. Stuff that's blunt, or oblique, or absurd, but has some secret sentiment it catches you with. Long-Term Memory (pic rel) really does it for me. Funny to listen to a reading of it and hear the audience laugh over the ending when it makes me feel profoundly sad.
Anonymous :
14 days ago :
No.9918
>>9920
>>9918
Thanks for the tip about the interview and the other authors, haven't heard of any of them besides Saunders and Adler. Speedboat I liked a lot, though I think I like short stories best for this kind of writing. I've had a biography of Barthelme and a collection of his essays and interviews I'll probably read once I'm through the last of his fiction.
Been reading Denis Johnson lately, to share a rec. Not much at all like Barthelme etc. but I really enjoyed his novella Train Dreams, and Jesus' Son was good.
>>9909
Anything else like Barthelme you'd recommend? Specifically short stories. I'm finally getting near the end of his complete collection.
I got into James Tate around the same time as him, and they're different in a lot of ways, but I like both their sort of "stupid" stories. Stuff that's blunt, or oblique, or absurd, but has some secret sentiment it catches you with. Long-Term Memory (pic rel) really does it for me. Funny to listen to a reading of it and hear the audience laugh over the ending when it makes me feel profoundly sad.
bartheleme's paris review interview gets into some writers he liked that aren't widely read today, sabatini, von kleist, sj perelman. i've only read kleist of the three and it's good but not particularly similar. you might try pricksongs and descants, barry hannah's stories, maybe george saunders. tonally the closest thing i can think of is actually a novella, speedboat by renata adler
>>9918
>>9909
bartheleme's paris review interview gets into some writers he liked that aren't widely read today, sabatini, von kleist, sj perelman. i've only read kleist of the three and it's good but not particularly similar. you might try pricksongs and descants, barry hannah's stories, maybe george saunders. tonally the closest thing i can think of is actually a novella, speedboat by renata adler
Thanks for the tip about the interview and the other authors, haven't heard of any of them besides Saunders and Adler. Speedboat I liked a lot, though I think I like short stories best for this kind of writing. I've had a biography of Barthelme and a collection of his essays and interviews I'll probably read once I'm through the last of his fiction.
Been reading Denis Johnson lately, to share a rec. Not much at all like Barthelme etc. but I really enjoyed his novella Train Dreams, and Jesus' Son was good.