Donald Barthelme bibliography
# Donald Barthelme bibliography

This is a bibliography of works by Donald Barthelme.

## Books

### Novels

| Title | Publisher | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Snow White | Atheneum (1967) | first published in The New Yorker on February 18, 1967 |
| The Dead Father | Farrar, Straus (1975) | incorporates the short story "A Manual for Sons" |
| Paradise | Putnam (1986) | |
| The King | Harper (1990) | |

### Collections

| Title | Publisher | Notes |
| - | - | - |
| Come Back, Dr. Caligari | Little, Brown (1964) | |
| Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts | Farrar, Straus (1968) | |
| Guilty Pleasures | Farrar, Straus (1968) | Non-fiction |
| City Life | Farrar, Straus (1970) | |
| Sadness | Farrar, Straus (1972) | |
| Amateurs | Farrar, Straus (1976) | |
| Great Days | Farrar, Straus (1979) | |
| Sixty Stories | Putnam (1981) | |
| Overnight to Many Distant Cities | Putnam (1983) | |
| Sam's Bar | Doubleday (1987) | With illustrations by Seymour Chwast |
| Forty Stories | Putnam (1987) | |
| The Teachings of Don B. | Turtle Bay Books (1992) | Satires, parodies, Fables, illustrated stories, and plays |
| Not-Knowing | Random House (1997) | Essays and interviews |
| Flying to America | Shoemaker & Hoard (2008) | |
| Collected Stories | Library of America (2021) | Collects seven complete books: Come Back, Dr. Caligari; Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts; City Life; Sadness; Amateurs; Great Days; Overnight to Many Distant Cities; selections from Sixty Stories and Forty Stories, and 4 uncollected stories |

### Children's books

| Title | Publisher |
| - | - |
| The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, or the Hithering Thithering Djinn | Farrar, Straus (1971) |

## Short Works

Includes short stories, satires, parodies, fables, and illustrated stories, arranged by first date of publication.

### 1959–1969

| Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
| - | - | - |
| Pages from the Annual Report | Forum, Spring 1959 (as David Reiner) | Flying to America (2008) |
| Me and Miss Mandible | Contact 7, February 1961 (under the title "The Darling Little Duckling At School") | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Hiding Man | First Person 1, spring/summer 1961 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| The Big Broadcast of 1938 | New World Writing 20, 1962 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| The Viennese Opera Ball | Contact 10, June 1962 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| L'Lapse | The New Yorker, March 2, 1963 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Florence Green is 81 | Harper's Bazaar, April 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| The Piano Player | The New Yorker, August 31, 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight | The New Yorker, October 12, 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| To London and Rome | Genesis West 2, Fall 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Flying to America (2008) |
| A Shower of Gold | The New Yorker, December 28, 1963 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Margins | The New Yorker, February 22, 1964 | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Down the Line with the Annual | The New Yorker, March 21, 1964 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Man's Face | The New Yorker, May 30, 1964 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| A Picture History of the War | The New Yorker, June 20, 1964 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
| The Police Band | The New Yorker, August 22, 1964 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
| For I'm the Boy | | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Will you Tell me? | Arts and Literature | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Joker's Greatest Triumph | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Up, Aloft in the Air | Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964) | Flying to America (2008) |
| The President | The New Yorker, September 5, 1964 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Game | The New Yorker, July 31, 1965 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Can We Talk | Art and Literature 5, Summer 1965 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
| Snap Snap | The New Yorker, August 28, 1965 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Edward and Pia | The New Yorker, September 25, 1965 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
| This Newspaper Here | The New Yorker, February 12, 1966 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Flying to America (2008) |
| See the Moon? | The New Yorker, March 12, 1966 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Several Garlic Tales | The Paris Review, No. 37, Spring 1966 | |
| The Balloon | The New Yorker, April 16, 1966 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Games are the Enemies of Beauty, Truth, and Sleep, Amanda Said | Mademoiselle, November 1966 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Dolt | The New Yorker, November 11, 1967 | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Alice | | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning | | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Report | | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Indian Uprising | | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| A Few Moments of Sleeping and Waking | | Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968); Forty Stories (1987) |
| And Now Let's Hear it for The Ed Sullivan Show! | Esquire, April 1969 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Bone Bubbles | The Paris Review 48, 1969 | City Life (1970); Flying to America (2008) |
| Paraguay | The New Yorker, September 6, 1969 | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |

### 1970–1974

| Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
| - | - | - |
| Brain Damage | The New Yorker, February 21, 1970 | City Life (1970); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Sentence | The New Yorker, March 7, 1970 | City Life (1970); Forty Stories (1987) |
| A Nation of Wheels | The New Yorker, June 13, 1970 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Many Have Remarked... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, June 13, 1970 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Newsletter | The New Yorker, July 11, 1970 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Views of My Father Weeping | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| On Angels | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Phantom of the Opera's Friend | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| City Life | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Falling Dog | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Policeman's Ball | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Glass Mountain | | City Life (1970); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| At the Tolstoy Museum | | City Life (1970); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Explanation | | City Life (1970); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Adventure | Harper's Bazaar, December 1970 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Rise of Capitalism | The New Yorker, December 12, 1970 | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Death of Edward Lear | The New Yorker, January 2, 1971 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Story Thus Far: | The New Yorker, May 1, 1971 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Critique de la Vie Quotidienne | The New Yorker, July 17, 1971 | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Natural History | Harper's, August 1971 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Mothball Fleet | The New Yorker, September 11, 1971 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
| Two Hours to Curtain | part of "Flying to America," The New Yorker, December 4, 1971 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Dragon | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, February 26, 1972 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Sandman | The Atlantic | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Träumerei | | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| A City of Churches | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Daumier | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Party | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Genius | The New Yorker, February 20, 1971 | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Engineer-Private Paul Klee Misplaces an Aircraft Between Milbertshofen and Cambrai, March 1916 | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Departures | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Catechist | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Flight of Pigeons from the Palace | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Temptation of St. Anthony | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| A Film | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Perpetua | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Flying to America (2008) |
| Subpoena | The New Yorker | Sadness (1972); Flying to America (2008) |
| Wrack | The New Yorker, October 21, 1972 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
| Swallowing | The New York Times, November 4, 1972 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Sea of Hesitation | The New Yorker, November 11, 1972 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
| A Man | The New Yorker, December 30, 1972 | Flying to America (2008) |
| The Inauguration | Harper's, January 1973 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Young Visitirs | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, February 10, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Teachings of Don B.: A Yankee Way of Knowledge | The New York Times Magazine, February 11, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Our Work and Why We Do It | The New Yorker, May 5, 1973 | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Educational Experience | Harper's, June 1973 | Amateurs(1976), Forty Stories (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| That Cosmopolitan Girl | The New Yorker, July 16, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware | The New Yorker, September 3, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Angry Young Man | Fiction, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Royal Treatment | The New York Times, November 3, 1973 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Palace | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, December 24, 1973 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Photographs | The New Yorker, January 28, 1974 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Heliotrope | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, April 1, 1974 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Mr. Foolfarm's Journal | The Village Voice, May 16, 1974 | Guilty Pleasures (1974); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Letters to the Editore | | Guilty Pleasures (1974); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The New Member | The New Yorker, July 15, 1974 | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
| Eugénie Grandet | | Guilty Pleasures (1974); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Bunny Image, Loss of: The Case of Bitsy S. | Guilty Pleasures (1974) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Nothing: A Preliminary Account | | Guilty Pleasures (1974); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| I Bought a Little City | The New Yorker, November 11, 1974 | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| I Was Gratified This Week... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, November 18, 1974 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |

### 1975–1979

| Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
| - | - | - |
| A Manual for Sons | | The Dead Father (1975); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Dassaud Prize | The New Yorker, January 12, 1976 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Monumental Folly | The Atlantic, February 1976 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Cornell | Joseph Cornell Exhibition Catalogue, February–March 1976; Ontario Review 5, Fall/Winter 1976 | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Great Debate | The New Yorker, May 3, 1976 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| At the End of the Mechanical Age | | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Rebecca | | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Captured Woman | | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Sergeant | Fiction, Vol. 3, Nos. 2+3, 1975 | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The School | | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Great Hug | | Amateurs (1976); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby | The New Yorker, May 26, 1973 | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Porcupines at the University | | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Wound | | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) |
| 110 West Sixty-First Street | | Amateurs (1976); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Agreement | | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
| What To Do Next | | Amateurs (1976) |
| And Then | | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
| The Discovery | | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
| The Reference | | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
| You Are as Brave as Vincent Van Gogh | | Amateurs (1976); Flying to America (2008) |
| I Have for Some Time... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, October 10, 1977 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Crisis | The New Yorker, October 24, 1977 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Apology | The New Yorker, February 20, 1978 | Great Days (1979); Flying to America (2008) |
| The New Music | the New Yorker, June 19, 1978 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| How I Write My Songs | The New Yorker, November 27, 1978 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| At Last, it is Time... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, November 27, 1978 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| We dropped in at the Stanhope... | "Notes and Comments", The New Yorker, December 25, 1978 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Aria | The New Yorker, March 12, 1979 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Well We All Had Our Willie & Wade Records... | Harper's, June 1979 | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Languishing, Half Deep in Summer | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, July 30, 1979 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Grandmother's House | The New Yorker, September 3, 1979 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Great Days | | Great Days (1979); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Question Party | Great Days (1979) | Flying to America (2008) |
| Cortés and Montezuma | | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Zombies | The New Yorker, April 25, 1977 | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The King of Jazz | | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Morning | | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Abduction from the Seraglio | | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| On the Steps of the Conservatory | | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Leap | | Great Days (1979); Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Concerning the Bodyguard | | Great Days (1979); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Belief | | Great Days (1979); Flying to America (2008) |
| Tales of the Swedish Army | | Great Days (1979); Flying to America (2008) |

### 1980–1989

| Title | Originally published in | Collected in: |
| - | - | - |
| I Wrote a Letter... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, October 27, 1980 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Pepperoni | The New Yorker, December 1, 1980 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| Thailand | The New Yorker, December 29, 1980 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Emperor | The New Yorker, January 26, 1981 | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Challenge | The New Yorker, October 5, 1981 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Donald Barthelme's Fine Homemade Soups | The Great American Writer's Cookbook (1981) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Emerald | | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| The Farewell | | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Heroes | | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Bishop | | Sixty Stories (1981) |
| Kissing the President | The New Yorker, August 1, 1983 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| I am, at the Moment... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Now that I am Older... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Speaking of the Human Body... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| A Woman Seated on a Plain Wooden Chair... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| That Guy in the Back Room... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Financially, the Paper... | The New Yorker | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) |
| I Put a Name in an Envelope... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | |
| They Called for More Structure... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| When He Came... | The New Yorker | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) |
| The First Thing the Baby Did Wrong... | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) | |
| On Our Street... | The New Yorker | Interchapter in Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983) |
| Affection | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Visitors | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Lightning | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The New Owner | | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Sakrete | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Overnight to Many Distant Cities | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Baby | | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Captain Blood | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Conversations with Goethe | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Palace at Four A.M. | The New Yorker | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Terminus | | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Forty Stories (1987) |
| Henrietta and Alexandra | | Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983); Flying to America (2008) |
| Return | Houston Post, March 23, 1984 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Sinbad | The New Yorker, August 27, 1984 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| The Art Of Baseball | The Spirit of Sport (1984) | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Construction | The New Yorker, April 29, 1985 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| When I Didn't Win... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, September 2, 1985 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Basil From Her Garden | The New Yorker, October 13, 1985 | |
| Bluebeard | The New Yorker, June 16, 1986 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| More Zero | The New Yorker, July 7, 1986 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| My Lover Said to Me... | "Notes and Comments," The New Yorker, August 11, 1986 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| January | The New Yorker, April 6, 1987 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| Three Great Meals | The New Yorker, June 1, 1987 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Author | The New Yorker, June 15, 1987 | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Jaws | The New Yorker, August 17, 1987 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| Chablis | The New Yorker, December 12, 1983 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| On the Deck | The New Yorker, January 12, 1987 | Forty Stories (1987) |
| Opening | | Forty Stories (1987) |
| Rif | | Forty Stories (1987) |
| Tickets | The New Yorker, March 6, 1989 | Flying to America (2008) |

### Posthumously published stories

| Title | Originally published in |
| - | - |
| Ming | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Bliss | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Wasteland! | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Heather | Flying to America (2008) |
| Pandemonium | Flying to America (2008) |

## Plays

| Title | Notes | Collected in |
| - | - | - |
| The Friends of the Family | Written as a radio play; includes sections from "For I'm the Boy" and "The Big Broadcast of 1938" | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| The Conservatory | Written as a radio play; includes sections from "On the Steps of the Conservatory" and "Great Days" | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Snow White | Adapted from the novel of the same name | The Teachings of Don B. (1992) |
| Great Days | Adapted from the story of the same name first produced off-Broadway at American Place Theater, 1983 | |
