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Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Do You Think Bartholmy Constructed a Story?

Do you think Bartholmy knew all along where his story was going? Was he writing towards that ending? I don't really see a conflict there, given my life. He may not have known until he got to the end what that end was. When when you start a story, do you know where it's ending? No, no, never.

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