# Not-Knowing

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- Book: [Not-Knowing](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme/not-knowing) ([Not-Knowing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme/not-knowing.md))
- Authors: [Donald Barthelme](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-barthelme), [John Barth](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-barth), [Kim Herzinger](https://www.bookquiver.com/kim-herzinger)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-15-9376-173-8
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2008-01-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The wildly varied essays in Not–Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America's masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme's thoughts on writing (his own and others); his...