Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever

“By most standards, many of his stories aren’t stories at all. They don’t have plots, or even realistic, believable characters. … In the manner of visual artists like Duchamp and Rauschenberg, they incorporated all sorts of found materials: snippets from ad copy, old travel guides, textbooks, and instruction manuals, even other writers.” – Literary Hub