Donald Barthelme bibliography
Appearance
This is a bibliography of works by Donald Barthelme.
Books
[edit]Novels
[edit]Title | Publisher | Notes |
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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
[edit]Title | Publisher | Notes |
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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
[edit]Title | Publisher |
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The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or the Hithering Thithering Djinn |
Farrar, Straus (1971) |
Short works
[edit]Includes short stories, satires, parodies, fables, and illustrated stories, arranged by first date of publication.
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1959–1969
[edit]Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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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
[edit]Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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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
[edit]Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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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
[edit]Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
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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) |
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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) |
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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
[edit]Title | Originally published in |
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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
[edit]Title | Notes | Collected in |
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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
[edit]- ^ Daugherty, Tracy (2009). Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme. St. Martin’s Press. p. 283.