A compellingly told and enthusiastic biography—makes a page-turner of Barthelme’s passionate search for a place in American lettersThe Washington Post - Steven Moore…not just a modest remembrance but a full-length, meticulously documented study. All dead authors should be so lucky…Daugherty was Barthelme's student in the '80s. The last time Daugherty saw him, six months before he died, his former teacher gave him a new assignment: "Write a story about a genius." He did, and I'd give it an A.