Frederick Barthelme

Fredrick Barthelme
Born (1943-10-10) October 10, 1943 (age 81)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Relatives

Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943)[citation needed] is an American novelist and short story writer of minimalist fiction. He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of New World Writing[1] (formerly Blip Magazine)[2]

Early life

Barthelme was born in Houston, Texas.[2]

Life and work

Barthelme was a founding member of the avant-garde experimental rock band the Red Krayola, and left the band to pursue writing and conceptual art in New York.[3][4][5]

His writing focuses on the landscape of the New South. Along with being a minimalist, his work has also been described as "dirty realism" and "Kmart realism".[6] He published his first short story in The New Yorker.[7]

Barthelme was the editor of Mississippi Review for three years.[8] He is the director of the Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi and editor of New World Writing[1] (formerly Blip Magazine).[2]

Personal life

His brothers Donald Barthelme and Steven Barthelme are also writers.

Publications

Novels

  • War and War, 1971.
  • Second Marriage New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
  • Tracer New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
  • Two Against One New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
  • Natural Selection New York: Viking, 1989.
  • The Brothers New York: Viking, 1993.
  • Painted Desert New York: Viking, 1995.
  • Bob the Gambler Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1997.
  • Elroy Nights Cambridge: Counterpoint, 2003.
  • Waveland New York: Doubleday, 2009.
  • There Must Be Some Mistake New York: Little Brown, 2014.

Story collections

  • Rangoon 1970.
  • Moon Deluxe Simon & Schuster, 1983.
  • Chroma Simon & Schuster, 1987.
  • The Law of Averages: New & Selected Stories Counterpoint, 2000.
  • "trip" (text) photographs by Susan Lipper Powerhouse Books, 1998.

Memoirs

  • (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Screenplays

  • Second Marriage 1985.
  • Tracer 1986.

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "Our Name Change". newworldwriting.net. December 13, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Fredrick Barthelme". The Mississippi Writers Page. The University of Mississippi, English Department. November 11, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  3. ^ "Mayo Thompson Interview Part 1". richieunterberger.com (Interview).
  4. ^ "The Red Krayola - The Parable of Arable Land/God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail with It Album Reviews, Songs & More", AllMusic, retrieved 2023-05-03
  5. ^ "The Red Krayola: The Parable of Arable Land / God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail with It". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  6. ^ "Southernscribe.com". www.southernscribe.com.
  7. ^ "Archived copy". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2020-02-18.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ "Barthelme's Departure Leaves the 'Mississippi Review' in Limbo - PageView - the Chronicle of Higher Education". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2010-07-21.

Further reading

  • Brinkmeyer, Robert H. "Suburban Culture, Imaginative Wonder: The Fiction of Frederick Barthelme." Studies in the Literary Imagination 27 (Fall 1994): 105–1.
  • Hughes, John C. The Novels and Short Stories of Frederick Barthelme: A Literary Critical Analysis. Lewiston: Mellen: 2005. ISBN 0773461779
  • Peters, Timothy. "The Eighties Pastoral: Frederick Barthelme's Moon Deluxe Ten Years On." Studies in Short Fiction 31.2 (Spring 1994): 175–95.