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Don't get me wrong: This collection has its pleasures, not least of which is the reminder of how strong and unique a sensibility Barthelme possessed, which sent me back to the incomparable anthology Sixty Stories (1981).
The term "Post-Modernism" turns up again and again in these essays and interviews, and it comes as a surprise to find it applied a quarter-century ago, not to metareferences in knowing television serials but to the work of Barthelme and his coevals John Barth, John Hawkes, Robert Coover, William Gass, etc.
As the present volume reveals, Barthelme also occasionally contributed to "Notes and Comment," at that time the first section of "The Talk of the Town."
Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.
Had Barthelme lived longer (he died in 1989, at 58), the majority of these items would not have been reprinted for another 20 or 30 years, and then probably in the usual dead-author package by the University of Winooski Press, for acquisition by selected academic libraries.