February 10th, 2009 / 2:50 pm
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Ben Lee reads Donald Barthelme’s “The Balloon.”

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19 Comments

  1. Justin Taylor

      yes yes yes. what a weird and pleasing meeting of persons and things.

  2. Justin Taylor

      yes yes yes. what a weird and pleasing meeting of persons and things.

  3. Gian

      I love this story. When driving through West Virginia, I always imagine it being stored away back in an old coal mine somewhere off the next exit.

  4. Gian

      I love this story. When driving through West Virginia, I always imagine it being stored away back in an old coal mine somewhere off the next exit.

  5. pr

      He wrote a very good record after Claire dumped him for that man whose ladyfriend was pregnant. I love that record. “Gamble Everything For Love” is a great song. It had other good songs, too. Once, I was a party and he was there and I said “I saw you open up for Juliana Hatfield!” And he said, “like five years ago?” I said, “no like a month ago”. He said, “That was Ben Kweller”. Oops.

  6. crispin

      if i knew for certain
      that once every month
      someone would send me a recording of a donald barthelme story
      and i had that to look forward to
      i could probably never feel bad again

  7. crispin

      if i knew for certain
      that once every month
      someone would send me a recording of a donald barthelme story
      and i had that to look forward to
      i could probably never feel bad again

  8. Matthew Simmons

      I was so happy to stumble across this.

      Another highlight is John Vanderslice reading from Letters to Wendys.

  9. Matthew Simmons

      I was so happy to stumble across this.

      Another highlight is John Vanderslice reading from Letters to Wendys.

  10. James Yeh

      have you heard donald antrim’s reading of “i bought a little city” on the new yorker podcast? it’s fantastic.

  11. James Yeh

      have you heard donald antrim’s reading of “i bought a little city” on the new yorker podcast? it’s fantastic.

  12. crispin

      exactly!

      such good donald on donald action

      i can’t even read the words ‘i bought a little city’ without hearing antrim reading them at the beginning of that story.

  13. crispin

      exactly!

      such good donald on donald action

      i can’t even read the words ‘i bought a little city’ without hearing antrim reading them at the beginning of that story.

  14. James Yeh

      totally.

  15. James Yeh

      totally.

  16. James Yeh

      does he read the one about the wooden board? that’s one of my favorites.

  17. James Yeh

      does he read the one about the wooden board? that’s one of my favorites.

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