Publications and Awards - Steve Barthelme

BOOKS

  • Hush Hush, collection of stories, NY: Melville House, 2012.
  • The Early Posthumous Work, a collection of essays, Los Angeles: Valentine Publishing, Red Hen Press, forthcoming, 2009.
  • Double Down, memoir, New York: Harvest, May, 2001, paperback, co-authored with Frederick Barthelme.

 

SHORT FICTION

  • “In the Rain,” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading 6,2 online (Oct 2012).
  •  “Pretend She Don’t Scare You a Bit,” Fiction Southeast online, 2011.
  • “Down the Garden Path,” Burnt Bridge 1 (2010) 5-12.
  • “Nice Boy,” Gulfstream online, April 2010.
  • “Jealous You, Jealous Me,” Esquire online, Feb. 2007.
  • “Bye Bye Brewster,” Southwest Review, 91, 3 (2006), 313-323.
  • “Zorro,” in So the Story Goes, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2005 16-27.
  • “In the Rain,” Swink [co-authored with Pam Houston], 2, 2005, 218-225.
  • “Claire,” in The Pushcart Prize XXIX, ed. Bill Henderson, NY: Pushcart Press, 2005, 324-339.
  • “Claire,” Yale Review, 91, 4 (Oct 2003), 112-128.
  • “Heaven,” Atlantic Monthly, 289, 6, June 2002, 78-80.
  • “The New South,” McSweeney's, No. 5, Summer 2000, 161-163.
  • “Siberia,” North American Review, 285, 1, (2000), 14-15.
  • “The Job,” in Blue Cathedral, Cull and Gale, eds., Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2000.

 

NON-FICTION

  • “A Belated Apology to Anton Chekhov,” TheAtlantic.com (online),  By Heart, March 19, 2013.
  • “Writers Choice: Nikolai Gogol,” Normblog (online)  January 24, 2012.
  • “Thrall,” in anthology Writers on the Edge, ed. Rabb & Brown, Ann Arbor & London: Modern History Press, 2012, 59-66 [with F. Barthelme].
  • “White Guy,” Brevity 35 online (Jan 2011).
  • “Local Writers’ Favorites,” in The Nation Guide to the Nation, ed. Richard Lingeman, © The Nation 2008, NY: Random House, Vintage Books, 2009, 53.
  • “Not as I Recall,” Connecticut Review, XXVIII, 2 (Fall 2006), 141-144.
  • “Enough Already,” in Rules of Thumb, eds. Martone, Neville, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, 2006, 48-51.
  • “Mississippi: Idiosyncratic, Incomprehensible, and Air-Conditioned,” a chapter in These United States, ed. John Leonard, NY: NationBooks, 2003, 221-230.
  • “Second Best Friend,” Houston Chronicle Magazine, April 13, 2003.
  • “Doppelganger Story,” Mississippi, XX, 1 (Sept/Oct 2001), 112.
  • “I Do, I Do,” Oxford American, No. 33 (May/June 2000), 54-56.
  • “It Used to Be Right Here,” Houston Chronicle Magazine, May 28, 2000.

 

POEMS

  • “Father,” “Aria Blattaria,” Southern Poetry Anthology II: Mississippi, ed. William Wright, Texas Review Press, 2009.
  • “Electric,” Connecticut Review, XXIII, 1 (Spring 2001), 125-126.

 

AWARDS

  • Pushcart Prize, short story, “Claire,” from Yale Review, 2005
  • Listed in “100 Distinguished Short Stories” Best American Short Stories 2004, 2004
  • Texas Institute of Letters, Short Story Award. “Claire,” 2004
  • Mississippi Arts Commission Artist’s Fellowship, Fiction, 2000
  • Texas Institute of Letters, O'Henry Award for Magazine Journalism, “Good Losers” [from The New Yorker, co-authored with Frederick Barthelme], 2000