{"product_id":"not-knowing-the-essays-and-interviews-9781593761738","title":"Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe wildly varied essays in \u003cem\u003eNot-Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his observations on art, architecture, film, and city life; interviews, including two previously unpublished; and meditations on everything from \u003cem\u003eSuperman III\u003c\/em\u003e to the art of rendering \"Melancholy Baby\" on jazz banjolele. This is a rich and eclectic selection of work by the man Robert Coover has called \"one of the great citizens of contemporary world letters.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Barthelme\u003c\/b\u003e is a winner of the National Book Award and is the author of over seventeen books, including \u003ci\u003eFlying to America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCity Life\u003c\/i\u003e (one of \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of the Year), and \u003ci\u003eSixty Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. He was a founder of the renowned University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he taught for many years. He died in 1989.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50656559726866,"sku":"9781593761738","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_24212131-f07a-4128-ab8c-22e5fd95afed.jpg?v=1733389244","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/not-knowing-the-essays-and-interviews-9781593761738","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}