More Barthelme

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<what I find missing from Don B. and DFW for that matter is some sense of 
surrealistic absurd and funny as heck terror, as in the works of my hero, 
Robert Coover. ... folks like DeLillo deal with dread and terror but it's 
more a statement of terror, not the evocation of same.>>


I agree (although I can't see any similarity bettwen Barthelme and Wallace). 

Coover's simultaneously funny and disturbing and his novels are, taken 
together, rich and varied.