The atmosphere of intellectual and aesthetic vigor encouraged by their father, pervasive in Barthelme family life, is described in Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, a memoir co-written by Frederick and his brother, Steven. His other brothers, Donald and Peter, emerged from the creative household to become authors as well. Double Down is one of the best firsthand accounts ever written about organized gambling. Like Goodman Brown, taking a walk with a hooded stranger into the darkness of the New England woods, the Barthelme brothers suddenly find themselves inside the maw of the monster.

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Verb[edit]

• 1999, Frederick Barthelme, Steve Barthelme, Double down: reflections on gambling and loss, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 66:

  He'd bet three thousand and double down to six thousand, all of it hanging on the turn of the next card.

• 2005, Steve Bourie, American Casino Guide, Casino Vacations Press, →ISBN, page 92:

  When deciding how to play your hand there are also three other options available to you besides standing or hitting. The first is called doubling down and most casinos will allow a player to double their bet on their first two cards and draw only one more card.

• 2005, Mike Turner, Bootlegger's 200 proof blackjack, Square One Publishers, →ISBN, page 32:

  He then placed an additional $400 in the betting square to double down on the hard 14 the dealer had dealt him. He promptly busted and lost $800.

• 2007, Peter Beinart, 'The Kosovo Conundrum,' Time, 12 April:

  Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama all want to get out of Iraq. They all want to double down in Afghanistan.

• 2009, Alford Fowler, Double Down Blackjack: The Uncomplicated Version, manna hut, →ISBN, page 32:

  It is important to remember that when a player opts to double down that the player is one; required to double the initial bet and two; is only dealt one additional card for better or for worse and loses the option to further hit or stand.

• 2009, Alford Fowler, Double Down Blackjack: The Uncomplicated Version‎^[1], manna hut, →ISBN, page 44:

  To indicate the desire to double down or split a pair, slide an amount of chips equal to the original bet into your betting circle.

Adjective[edit]

• 2005, Steve Bourie, American Casino Guide, Casino Vacations Press, →ISBN, page 95:

  When your cards total 11 you would always want to hit it because you can't bust, but before you ask for a card you should consider making a double down bet.

Interjection[edit]

• 1991, Tom E. Kakonis, Double down: Tom Kakonis‎^[2], Dutton, →ISBN, page 217:

  Somewhat relutanctly, Caroline pushed her second stack out alongside the first and said 'Double down' and another ace was laid on her hand.

English citations of double-down

• 1987, Lance Humble, Carl Cooper, The World Greatest Blackjack Book‎^[3], Doubleday, →ISBN, page 33:

  The basic double-down play means that you may make a second wager no higher than the amount of your original bet and receive one and only one additional card.

• 2005, Steve Bourie, American Casino Guide, Casino Vacations Press, →ISBN, page 7:

  This is your best casino game, but you must learn how to play your hands (when to hit, stand, double-down, split, etc.)

• 2005, Mike Turner, Bootlegger's 200 proof blackjack, Square One Publishers, →ISBN, page 3:

  He knows to handle double-down opportunities and what to do with hands that should be split.

Fredrick Barthelme (born October 10, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer, well known as one of the seminal writers of minimalist fiction. Alongside his personal publishing history, his position as Director of The Center For Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi^[1] and Editor of the nationally prominent literary journal Mississippi Review (1977 - 2010) have placed him at the forefront of the contemporary American literary scene. He is currently the editor of New World Writing^[2] (formerly Blip Magazine)^[3]

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Early life[edit]

Barthelme was born in Houston, Texas.^[3] His father, Donald Barthelme, Sr., was a well-known and highly active Modernist architect in the city. The atmosphere of intellectual and aesthetic vigor encouraged by their father, pervasive in Barthelme family life, is described in Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, a memoir co-written by Frederick and his brother, Steven. His other brothers, Donald and Peter, emerged from the creative household to become authors as well. Frederick pursued his widely-ranging talents in multiple creative fields, including painting and music: he was a founding member of the avant-garde psychedelic rock band The Red Krayola. He eventually chose to focus on fiction writing: receiving his M.A. in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with John Barth.

Style[edit]

Barthelme's works are known for their focus on the landscape of the New South. Along with his reputation as a minimalist (similar to Raymond Carver, Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison), Barthelme's work has also been described by terms such as 'dirty realism' and 'Kmart realism'.^[4] He published his first short story in The New Yorker,^[5] and has claimed that a rotisseriechicken helped him understand that he needed to write about ordinary people.^[6] He has moved away from the postmodern stylings of his older brother, Donald Barthelme, though his brother's influence can be seen in his earliest works, Rangoon and War and War.

Barthelme was thirty-three-year editor of Mississippi Review,^[7] known for recognizing and publishing once new talents such as Larry Brown, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Amy Hempel early in their careers. Issues of Mississippi Review have been guest-edited by authors Rick Moody and Mary Robison among others.

Awards[edit]

• 1976-77 Eliot Coleman Award for prose from Johns Hopkins University for his short story, 'Storyteller.'
• 1979, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts grant
• 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nomination for Elroy Nights.
• 2010 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters fiction award for Waveland

Bibliography[edit]

Story Collections[edit]

• Rangoon 1970.
• Moon Deluxe Simon & Schuster, 1983.
• Chroma Simon & Schuster, 1987.
• The Law of Averages: New & Selected Stories Counterpoint, 2000.
• 'trip' (text) photographs by Susan Lipper Powerhouse Books, 1998.

Novels (fiction)[edit]

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• War and War 1971.
• Second Marriage New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
• Tracer New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
• Two Against One New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
• Natural Selection New York: Viking, 1989.
• The Brothers New York: Viking, 1993.
• Painted Desert New York: Viking, 1995.
• Bob the Gambler Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1997.
• Elroy Nights Cambridge: Counterpoint, 2003.
• Waveland New York: Doubleday, 2009.
• There Must Be Some Mistake New York: Little Brown, 2014.

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Memoirs (non-fiction)[edit]

• (With Steven Barthelme) Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Screenplays[edit]

• Second Marriage 1985.
• Tracer 1986.

References[edit]

1. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2010-03-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. ^http://newworldwriting.net/forgiveness/
3. ^ ^ab'Fredrick Barthelme'. The Mississippi Writers Page. The University of Mississippi, English Department. November 11, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
4. ^http://www.southernscribe.com/zine/authors/Barthelme_Frederick.htm
5. ^http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/frederick_barthelme/search?contributorName=frederick%20barthelme
6. ^http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/missouri_review/v027/27.2oates.html
7. ^http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Barthelmes-Departure-Leave/25610/

Further reading[edit]

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• Brinkmeyer, Robert H. 'Suburban Culture, Imaginative Wonder: The Fiction of Frederick Barthelme.' Studies in the Literary Imagination 27 (Fall 1994): 105-1.
• Hughes, John C. The Novels and Short Stories of Frederick Barthelme: A Literary Critical Analysis. Lewiston: Mellen: 2005. ISBN0773461779
• Peters, Timothy. 'The Eighties Pastoral: Frederick Barthelme's Moon Deluxe Ten Years On.' Studies in Short Fiction 31.2 (Spring 1994): 175-95.

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