16 Podcast Episodes
S6 Ep. 22: More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme, and the Chinese Spy Balloon
S6 Ep. 22: More to Say: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection of Essays, Donald Barthelme, and the Chinese Spy Balloon
Acclaimed fiction writer Ann Beattie joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her recent LitHub... Read more
2 Mar 2023
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46mins
Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021
Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme 2021
Donald Antrim joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Balloon,” by Donald Barthelme, which was published in The ... Read more
1 Oct 2021
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37mins
Literature: The School by Donald Barthelme
Literature: The School by Donald Barthelme
TLS learns about the birds and the bees, and how they and everything else will eventually die in this short New Yorker s... Read more
17 Mar 2021
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40mins
Reading Donald Barthelme #1
Reading Donald Barthelme #1
[EP 60] In this episode, I read just a little selection from a story by one of my favorite American short story writers!... Read more
18 Nov 2020
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8mins
029: “The School” by Donald Barthelme
029: “The School” by Donald Barthelme
If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining our Patreon. Your support helps us keep the show running. Find out more at... Read more
1 Apr 2020
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21mins
Game By Andy Boyd From The Story By Donald Barthelme
Game By Andy Boyd From The Story By Donald Barthelme
Sam Simone and Alexander Stene read Game, by Andy Boyd, adapted from the story by Donald Barthelme.
27 Mar 2020
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8mins
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme, Episode 006
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by Donald Barthelme, Episode 006
'I said that although hanging Colby was almost certainly against the law, we had a perfect moral right to do so because ... Read more
22 Jan 2020
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11mins
180 Donald Barthelme
180 Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon” (1966) is one of the strangest and most enduring short stories to come out of the secon... Read more
20 Feb 2019
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1hr 1min
Fan's Notes Episode 24: Donald Barthelme / Draft Lottery
Fan's Notes Episode 24: Donald Barthelme / Draft Lottery
In this second installment of the Short Corner, our biweekly series in which we read a short story instead of a novel, w... Read more
19 May 2017
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58mins
“The School” from Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
“The School” from Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme
A story that tells me to not take life and death too seriously. You can read the story yourself here. https://archive.or... Read more
7 Apr 2017
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