Tag Archives: Frederick Barthelme

Two Against One

“Barthelme achieves what Chekov spoke of as grace, the most gained with the least exertion. He leads us through a shattered set of lives,…

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Second Marriage

“The whole book is like an interesting and just barely believable dream–one of those dreams that’s sexy, anxious, promising, and threatening at the same…

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Moon Deluxe

“Moon Deluxe is engaging, observant and at times downright whack-in-the-solar-plexus mean. It’s impossible to conceive of any writer doing what he does any better…

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Chroma

“A seemingly random series of events, and yet they beguile us with the sort of surreal clarity and brightness of objects glimpsed in a…

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