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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]
Fredrick Barthelme | |
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| Born | October 10, 1943 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
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Early life
editLife and work
editBarthelme 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
editHis brothers Donald Barthelme and Steven Barthelme are also writers.
Publications
editNovels
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Screenplays
edit- Second Marriage 1985.
- Tracer 1986.
Awards
edit- 1976–77 Eliot Coleman Award for prose from Johns Hopkins University for his short story, "Storyteller"[citation needed]
- 1979, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts grant[citation needed]
- 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nomination for Elroy Nights[citation needed]
- 2010 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters fiction award for Waveland[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b "Our Name Change". newworldwriting.net. December 13, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Fredrick Barthelme". The Mississippi Writers Page. The University of Mississippi, English Department. November 11, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
- ^ "Mayo Thompson Interview Part 1". richieunterberger.com (Interview).
- ^ "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
- ^ "The Red Krayola: The Parable of Arable Land / God Bless The Red Krayola and All Who Sail with It". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
- ^ "Southernscribe.com". www.southernscribe.com.
- ^ "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) - ^ "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
edit- 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.