{"product_id":"not-knowing-the-essays-and-interviews-paperback","title":"Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKim Herzinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKim Herzinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wildly varied essays in \u003ci\u003eNot-Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from \u003ci\u003eSuperman III\u003c\/i\u003e to the art of rendering \"Melancholy Baby\" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called \"one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Donald Barthelme died at the age of 54, he was perhaps the most imitated (if not emulated) practitioner of American literature. Caustic, slyly observant, transgressive, verbally scintillating, Barthelme's essays, stories, and novels redefined a generation of American letters and remain unparalleled for the way they capture our national pastimes and obsessions, but most of all for the way they caputure the strangeness of life. \u003cbr\u003eNot-Knowing amounts to the posthumous manifesto of one of our premier literary modernists. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two never previously published; and meditations on everything from Superman III to the art of rendering \"Melancholy Baby\" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called \"one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e is a winner of the National Book Award and is the author of over seventeen books, including \u003ci\u003eFlying to America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity Life\u003c\/i\u003e (one of \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year), and \u003ci\u003eSixty Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. He was a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he taught for many years. He died in 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984074309933,"sku":"9781593761738","price":18.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/cXZaNEgwQWVjSTNSRDBnNitWUnc4dz09.webp?v=1776081768","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/not-knowing-the-essays-and-interviews-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}