Frederick Barthelme


Frederick Barthelme

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Born	1943
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Frederick Barthelme was a founding member of the Red Crayola. He was the group's original drummer and performed with the group from summer 1966 to summer 1967. After the Red Crayola disbanded he continued to collaborate with Mayo Thompson on writing and music projects until Thompson moved to the UK in 1973.

With The Red Crayola/Mayo Thompson

Drums

The Red Crayola

Post-Crayola

Corky's Debt to His Father
- Around the Home - co-writer
Rangoon
War and War

Old Tom Clark
- Old Tom Clark - co-writer
- Pig Ankle Strut - co-writer
The Rockin' Blue Diamonds

Credits on later releases

Three Songs on a Trip to the United States
- photography (from Rangoon)

Fingerpainting
- sampled guest (from the sessions for The Parable of Arable Land)
Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola
- credited with "deep structures" (cf. The Parable of Arable Land)

Bibliography

Fiction

Year	Title		Publisher	Notes
1970	Rangoon	story collection	Winter House	illustrated by Mayo Thompson
1971	War and War	novel?	Doubleday
1983	Moon Deluxe	story collection	Simon & Schuster
1984	Second Marriage	novel	Simon & Schuster
1985	Tracer	novel	Simon & Schuster
1987	Chroma	story collection	Simon & Schuster
1988	Two Against One	novel	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1989	Natural Selection	novel	Viking
1993	The Brothers	novel	Viking
1995	Painted Desert	novel	Viking
1997	Bob the Gambler	novel	Houghton Mifflin
2003	Elroy Nights	novel	Counterpoint
2009	Waveland	novel	Doubleday
2014	There Must Be Some Mistake	novel	Little Brown

Memoirs

Year	Title		Publisher	Notes
1999	Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss	memoir	Houghton Mifflin	with Steve Barthelme

Essays

Year	Title	Publication	Notes
1970	Three from May 23rd, 1969	Art-Language Vol. 1 No. 2

References