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Donald Barthelme bibliography

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This is a bibliography of works by Donald Barthelme.

Books

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Novels

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Title Publisher Notes
Snow White Atheneum (1967) first published in The New Yorker on February 18, 1967[1]
The Dead Father Farrar, Straus (1975) incorporates the short story
"A Manual for Sons"
Paradise Putnam (1986)
The King Harper (1990)

Collections

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Title Publisher Notes
Come Back, Dr. Caligari Little, Brown (1964)
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts Farrar, Straus (1968)
Guilty Pleasures Farrar, Straus (1968) Non-fiction
City Life Farrar, Straus (1970)
Sadness Farrar, Straus (1972)
Amateurs Farrar, Straus (1976)
Great Days Farrar, Straus (1979)
Sixty Stories Putnam (1981)
Overnight to Many Distant Cities Putnam (1983)
Sam's Bar Doubleday (1987) With illustrations by Seymour Chwast
Forty Stories Putnam (1987)
The Teachings of Don B. Turtle Bay Books (1992) Satires, parodies, Fables, illustrated stories, and plays
Not-Knowing Random House (1997) Essays and interviews
Flying to America Shoemaker & Hoard (2008)
Collected Stories Library of America (2021) Collects seven complete books: Come Back, Dr. Caligari;
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts; City Life;
Sadness; Amateurs; Great Days; Overnight to Many Distant Cities
;
selections from Sixty Stories and Forty Stories, and 4 uncollected stories

Children's books

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Title Publisher
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine,
or the Hithering Thithering Djinn
Farrar, Straus (1971)

Short works

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Includes short stories, satires, parodies, fables, and illustrated stories, arranged by first date of publication.

1959–1969

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Title Originally published in Collected in:
Pages from the Annual Report Forum, Spring 1959 (as David Reiner) Flying to America (2008)
Me and Miss Mandible Contact 7, February 1961 (under the title "The Darling Little Duckling At School") Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Hiding Man First Person 1, spring/summer 1961 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 New World Writing 20, 1962 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
The Viennese Opera Ball Contact 10, June 1962 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
L'Lapse The New Yorker, March 2, 1963 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Florence Green is 81 Harper's Bazaar, April 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
The Piano Player The New Yorker, August 31, 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight The New Yorker, October 12, 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
To London and Rome Genesis West 2, Fall 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Flying to America (2008)
A Shower of Gold The New Yorker, December 28, 1963 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Margins The New Yorker, February 22, 1964 Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Down the Line with the Annual The New Yorker, March 21, 1964 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Man's Face The New Yorker, May 30, 1964 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
A Picture History of the War The New Yorker, June 20, 1964 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Flying to America (2008)
The Police Band The New Yorker, August 22, 1964 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Flying to America (2008)
For I'm the Boy Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Will you Tell me? Arts and Literature Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Joker's Greatest Triumph Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Up, Aloft in the Air Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) Flying to America (2008)
The President The New Yorker, September 5, 1964 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Game The New Yorker, July 31, 1965 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Can We Talk Art and Literature 5, Summer 1965 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Flying to America (2008)
Snap Snap The New Yorker, August 28, 1965 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Edward and Pia The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Flying to America (2008)
This Newspaper Here The New Yorker, February 12, 1966 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Flying to America (2008)
See the Moon? The New Yorker, March 12, 1966 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Several Garlic Tales The Paris Review, No. 37, Spring 1966
The Balloon The New Yorker, April 16, 1966 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Games are the Enemies of Beauty,
Truth, and Sleep, Amanda Said
Mademoiselle, November 1966 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Dolt The New Yorker, November 11, 1967 Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Alice Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Report Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Indian Uprising Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Sixty Stories (1981)
A Few Moments of Sleeping and Waking Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968);
Forty Stories (1987)
And Now Let's Hear it for
The Ed Sullivan Show!
Esquire, April 1969 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Bone Bubbles The Paris Review 48, 1969 City Life (1970);
Flying to America (2008)
Paraguay The New Yorker, September 6, 1969 City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)

1970–1974

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Title Originally published in Collected in:
Brain Damage The New Yorker, February 21, 1970 City Life (1970);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Sentence The New Yorker, March 7, 1970 City Life (1970);
Forty Stories (1987)
A Nation of Wheels The New Yorker, June 13, 1970 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Many Have Remarked... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
June 13, 1970
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Newsletter The New Yorker, July 11, 1970 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Views of My Father Weeping City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
On Angels City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Phantom of the Opera's Friend City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
City Life City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Falling Dog City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Policeman's Ball City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Glass Mountain City Life (1970);
Sixty Stories (1981)
At the Tolstoy Museum City Life (1970);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Explanation City Life (1970);
Forty Stories (1987)
Adventure Harper's Bazaar, December 1970 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Rise of Capitalism The New Yorker, December 12, 1970 Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Death of Edward Lear The New Yorker, January 2, 1971 Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Story Thus Far: The New Yorker, May 1, 1971 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Critique de la Vie Quotidienne The New Yorker, July 17, 1971 Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Natural History Harper's, August 1971 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Mothball Fleet The New Yorker, September 11, 1971 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Flying to America (2008)
Two Hours to Curtain part of "Flying to America,"
The New Yorker, December 4, 1971
Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Dragon "Notes and Comments,"
The New Yorker, February 26, 1972
Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Sandman The Atlantic Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Träumerei Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
A City of Churches The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Daumier The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Party The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Genius The New Yorker, February 20, 1971 Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces
an Aircraft Between Milbertshofen
and Cambrai, March 1916
The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
Departures The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Catechist The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Temptation of St. Anthony The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
A Film The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Forty Stories (1987)
Perpetua The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Flying to America (2008)
Subpoena The New Yorker Sadness (1972);
Flying to America (2008)
Wrack The New Yorker, October 21, 1972 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Flying to America (2008)
Swallowing The New York Times, November 4, 1972 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Sea of Hesitation The New Yorker, November 11, 1972 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Flying to America (2008)
A Man The New Yorker, December 30, 1972 Flying to America (2008)
The Inauguration Harper's, January 1973 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Young Visitirs "Notes and Comments,"
The New Yorker, February 10, 1973
Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Teachings of Don B.:
A Yankee Way of Knowledge
The New York Times Magazine,
February 11, 1973
Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Our Work and Why We Do It The New Yorker, May 5, 1973 Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Educational Experience Harper's, June 1973 Amateurs(1976), Forty Stories (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
That Cosmopolitan Girl The New Yorker, July 16, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware The New Yorker, September 3, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Angry Young Man Fiction, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Royal Treatment The New York Times, November 3, 1973 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Palace "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
December 24, 1973
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Photographs The New Yorker, January 28, 1974 Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Heliotrope "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
April 1, 1974
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Mr. Foolfarm's Journal The Village Voice,
May 16, 1974
Guilty Pleasures (1974);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Letters to the Editore Guilty Pleasures (1974);
Forty Stories (1987)
The New Member The New Yorker, July 15, 1974 Amateurs (1976);
Flying to America (2008)
Eugénie Grandet Guilty Pleasures (1974);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Bunny Image, Loss of:
The Case of Bitsy S.
Guilty Pleasures (1974) The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Nothing: A Preliminary Account Guilty Pleasures (1974);
Sixty Stories (1981)
I Bought a Little City The New Yorker, November 11, 1974 Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
I Was Gratified This Week... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
November 18, 1974
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)

1975–1979

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Title Originally published in Collected in:
A Manual for Sons The Dead Father (1975);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Dassaud Prize The New Yorker, January 12, 1976 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Monumental Folly The Atlantic, February 1976 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Cornell Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalogue,
February–March 1976;
Ontario Review 5, Fall/Winter 1976
Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Great Debate The New Yorker, May 3, 1976 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
At the End of the Mechanical Age Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Rebecca Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Captured Woman Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Sergeant Fiction, Vol. 3, Nos. 2+3, 1975 Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The School Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Great Hug Amateurs (1976);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Some of Us Had Been Threatening
Our Friend Colby
The New Yorker, May 26, 1973 Amateurs (1976);
Forty Stories (1987)
Porcupines at the University Amateurs (1976);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Wound Amateurs (1976);
Forty Stories (1987)
110 West Sixty-First Street Amateurs (1976);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Agreement Amateurs (1976);
Flying to America (2008)
What To Do Next Amateurs (1976)
And Then Amateurs (1976);
Flying to America (2008)
The Discovery Amateurs (1976);
Flying to America (2008)
The Reference Amateurs (1976);
Flying to America (2008)
You Are as Brave as Vincent Van Gogh Amateurs (1976);
Flying to America (2008)
I Have for Some Time... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
October 10, 1977
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Crisis The New Yorker, October 24, 1977 Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Apology The New Yorker, February 20, 1978 Great Days (1979);
Flying to America (2008)
The New Music the New Yorker, June 19, 1978 Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
How I Write My Songs The New Yorker, November 27, 1978 Sixty Stories (1981)
At Last, it is Time... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
November 27, 1978
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
We dropped in at the Stanhope... "Notes and Comments",
The New Yorker, December 25, 1978
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Aria The New Yorker, March 12, 1979 Sixty Stories (1981)
Well We All Had Our
Willie & Wade Records...
Harper's, June 1979 Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Languishing, Half Deep in Summer "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
July 30, 1979
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Grandmother's House The New Yorker, September 3, 1979 Sixty Stories (1981)
Great Days Great Days (1979);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Question Party Great Days (1979) Flying to America (2008)
Cortés and Montezuma Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Zombies The New Yorker, April 25, 1977 Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The King of Jazz Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Morning Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Abduction from the Seraglio Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
On the Steps of the Conservatory Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
The Leap Great Days (1979);
Sixty Stories (1981)
Concerning the Bodyguard Great Days (1979);
Forty Stories (1987)
Belief Great Days (1979);
Flying to America (2008)
Tales of the Swedish Army Great Days (1979);
Flying to America (2008)

1980–1989

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Title Originally published in Collected in:
I Wrote a Letter... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
October 27, 1980
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Pepperoni The New Yorker, December 1, 1980 Forty Stories (1987)
Thailand The New Yorker, December 29, 1980 Sixty Stories (1981)
The Emperor The New Yorker, January 26, 1981 Sixty Stories (1981)
Challenge The New Yorker, October 5, 1981 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Donald Barthelme's
Fine Homemade Soups
The Great American
Writer's Cookbook
(1981)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Emerald Sixty Stories (1981)
The Farewell Sixty Stories (1981)
Heroes Sixty Stories (1981)
Bishop Sixty Stories (1981)
Kissing the President The New Yorker, August 1, 1983 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
I am, at the Moment... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Now that I am Older... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Speaking of the Human Body... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
A Woman Seated on
a Plain Wooden Chair...
Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
That Guy in the Back Room... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Financially, the Paper... The New Yorker Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
I Put a Name in an Envelope... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
They Called for More Structure... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
When He Came... The New Yorker Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
The First Thing the Baby Did Wrong... Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
On Our Street... The New Yorker Interchapter in
Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983)
Affection The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Visitors The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Lightning The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
The New Owner Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Sakrete The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Overnight to Many Distant Cities The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Baby Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Captain Blood The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Conversations with Goethe The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
The Palace at Four A.M. The New Yorker Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Terminus Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Forty Stories (1987)
Henrietta and Alexandra Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983);
Flying to America (2008)
Return Houston Post, March 23, 1984 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Sinbad The New Yorker, August 27, 1984 Forty Stories (1987)
The Art Of Baseball The Spirit of Sport (1984) The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Construction The New Yorker, April 29, 1985 Forty Stories (1987)
When I Didn't Win... "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker,
September 2, 1985
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Basil From Her Garden The New Yorker, October 13, 1985
Bluebeard The New Yorker, June 16, 1986 Forty Stories (1987)
More Zero The New Yorker, July 7, 1986 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
My Lover Said to Me... "Notes and Comments,"
The New Yorker, August 11, 1986
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
January The New Yorker, April 6, 1987 Forty Stories (1987)
Three Great Meals The New Yorker, June 1, 1987 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Author The New Yorker, June 15, 1987 The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Jaws The New Yorker, August 17, 1987 Forty Stories (1987)
Chablis The New Yorker, December 12, 1983 Forty Stories (1987)
On the Deck The New Yorker, January 12, 1987 Forty Stories (1987)
Opening Forty Stories (1987)
Rif Forty Stories (1987)
Tickets The New Yorker, March 6, 1989 Flying to America (2008)

Posthumously published stories

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Title Originally published in
Ming The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Bliss The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Wasteland! The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Heather Flying to America (2008)
Pandemonium Flying to America (2008)

Plays

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Title Notes Collected in
The Friends of the Family Written as a radio play; includes sections from
"For I'm the Boy" and "The Big Broadcast of 1938"
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
The Conservatory Written as a radio play; includes sections from
"On the Steps of the Conservatory" and "Great Days"
The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Snow White Adapted from the novel of the same name The Teachings of Don B. (1992)
Great Days Adapted from the story of the same name
first produced off-Broadway at American Place Theater, 1983

References

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  1. ^ Daugherty, Tracy (2009). Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme. St. Martin’s Press. p. 283.