Happy birthday, Donald Barthelme! Here are some quote from his writing.
“I am never needlessly obscure—I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.”
“‘How can you be alienated without first having been connected?'”
“Originality is the last refuge of a hero…”
“All I want is just a trace of skeleton—three bones from which the rest may be reasoned out.”
“When people don’t write letters, language deteriorates.”
John Madera's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.