Barthelme's new collection of short fiction, aptly titled "Great Days," is built on [the] notion of routines and how to play them….
In all cases, the emphasis is on doing a routine, playing out situations as if they were vaudeville acts. In their least pretentious form, bits like these need only the two voices of straight man and comic, and in "Great Days" Barthelme tries his hand at keeping everything else out of the way.
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