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Donald Barthelme, on his birthday April 7 Absurd and surreal free-associative stories, playful, odd, and totally uninterested in comprehensibility, full of references to literature and philosophy, art and music, but also to pop culture and…

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Quote of the Day “Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.” — Donald Barthelme, "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,," The Newyorker (01973-05-18)

“Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.” — Donald Barthelme, "Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,," The Newyorker (01973-05-18)
#BOTD #DonaldBarthelme #QOTD #Quotation #Quote #Life #Death

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“Write about what you're afraid of.”

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

✒️ #DonaldBarthelme, American writer, was #BOTD 7 April 1931. #Literature

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they said is death that which gives meaning to life…I said,no,life is that which gives meaning to life…they said,but isn't death,considered as a fundamental datum,the means by which the taken-for-granted mundanity of the everyday may be transcended in the direction of-

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Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Mark Jay Mirsky (Full Interview)
Joyce Carol Oates in Conversation with Mark Jay Mirsky (Full Interview) YouTube video by Fiction Magazine

@joycecaroloates.bsky.social and #MarkMirsky sat down at #CCNY in November 2024 to discuss #writing, #publishing, #DonaldBarthelme, and more.

🎥 To watch the full video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5am...

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Quote of the Day “The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.” — Donald Barthelme, "The educational experience," Harper’s Magazine (01973-06)

“The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.” — Donald Barthelme, "The educational experience," Harper’s Magazine (01973-06)
#QOTD #DonaldBarthelme #Quote #EducationalExperience #Quotation

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Concerning the Bodyguard - Short Film feat. Salman Rushdie
Concerning the Bodyguard - Short Film feat. Salman Rushdie YouTube video by Short of the Week

Is it the case that, on a certain morning, the garbage cans of the entire city, the garbage cans of the entire country, are overflowing with empty champagne bottles?

#FilmSky
#DonaldBarthelme
#SalmanRushdie

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Concerning the Bodyguard - Short Film feat. Salman Rushdie
Concerning the Bodyguard - Short Film feat. Salman Rushdie YouTube video by Short of the Week

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#Filmsky
#concerningthebodyguard
#SalmanRushdie
#DonaldBarthelme

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"Write about what you're afraid of."

#DonaldBarthelme, American short story writer and novelist, #DOTD 23 July 1989. #Literature

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“Write about what you're afraid of.”

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

✒️ #DonaldBarthelme, American writer, was #BOTD 7 April 1931. #Literature

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A great joy & an inspiration to me was #DonaldBarthelme. I have a longish essay on his work.

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