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Jan19

22:57

I bought a little city

filed under: urbanism by ylva

I own a little city

Awful pretty

Can’t help people

Can hurt them though

Shoot their dogs

Mess ‘em up

Be imaginative

Plant trees

Best to leave ‘em alone?

Who decides?

Sam’s wife is Sam’s wife and coveting

Is not nice

Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia in 1931 to two students at the University of Pennsylvania. The family moved to Texas two years later, where Barthelme’s father would become a professor of architecture at the University of Houston, where Barthelme would later major in journalism.

Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme’s 1974 short story “I Bought a Little City” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.