Product Description: Donald Barthelme was one of the most influential and inventive writers of the 20th century. In this volume of unpublished and previously uncollected stories, he transforms the absurd and strange into the real in his usual epiphanic, engaging, and richly textured style...read more

Product Description: When Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54, he was perhaps the most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive, verbally scintillating, Barthelme's essays, stories, and novels redefined a generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way they capture our national pastimes and obsessions, but most of all for the way they caputure the strangeness of life...read more

A collection of writings by the late author features previously unpublished works, including stage and radio plays, collage stories, and other short works (view table of contents)

The second collection of the late writer's nonfiction includes his uncollected essays--some of them from The New Yorker magazine--as well as several previously unpublished interviews, encompassing his views on art, film, and city life. (view table of contents)

Thomas Pynchon provides the introduction to a collection of work by the late writer, featuring previously unpublished work and the actual stage script for Snow White, in the first of a three-volume series.