Steven Barthelme is the author

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 of numerous short stories

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 and essay

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s. His published works include And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss (with brother Frederick Barthelme

Frederick Barthelme

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), and The Early Posthumous Work (essays which originally appeared in The New Yorker

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, New York Times, Oxford American

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, Elle Decor

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, and other publications). His brothers Donald

Donald Barthelme

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 and Frederick

Frederick Barthelme

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 also became notable authors. His father, Donald Barthelme, Sr., was a well-known Modernist architect

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 in Houston.

He won Pushcart Prize

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s in 1993 and 2005, and in 2004 he won the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for work published in Yale Review

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. Stylistically, Barthelme is a realist

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 and a modernist

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He is the director of The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi

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