Barthelme, Donald, Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme, edited by Kim Herzinger, Vintage Books, 1999.

Originally published in 1997, this book includes essays written by Barthelme and interviews with him on such topics as his and others' writings, art and architecture, music, film.

Barthelme, Helen Moore, Donald Barthelme: The Genesis of a Cool Sound, Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Helen Moore Barthelme is an English professor at Texas A&M University, but between 1956 and 1965, she was the writer's wife. In this memoir, she offers personal insights into the writer's early writings and a description of their life together in Houston.

Friedman, Ellen G., and Miriam Fuchs, eds., Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction, Princeton University Press, 1989.

This book features nineteen essays devoted to exploring postmodern fiction written by women. The writers discussed include Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Hudgens, Michael Thomas, Donald Barthelme...