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Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Bartholomy's the Balloon

The balloon is a much taught story, a much read story. It's sort of, if you read only one bartholomy's story ind an anthology, it's probably the balloon. How does it stand out from his other stories? It's accessible. I mean, it's less abstract. But this is a very contained story, you kno. And i think it would be teachable with that ending like that.

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