Tag: Shoemaker and Hoard

  • 'Barthelmismo'

    Here’s a bit of Donald Barthelme’s “The Big Broadcast of 1938” ” “Tell me about your early life,” she said. “I was, in a sense, an All-American boy,” Bloomsbury replied. “In what sense?” “In the sense that I married,” he said. “Was it love?” “It was love but it was only temporary.” “It didn’t go…