Double Down Reflections On Gambling And Loss Program
Double Down Reflections On Gambling And Loss Center

Steven Barthelme at the 2012 Texas Book Festival

Double down: reflections on gambling and loss. Frederick Barthelme; Steve Barthelme - '. A several-year escapade during which the two brothers lost close to a quarter million dollars in the gambling boats off the Mississippi coast.' Double Down is the wry, often heartbreaking story of how Frederick and Steven Barthelme got into this predicament. It is also a reflection on the allure of casinos and the pull and power of illusions that can destroy our lives if we aren’t careful. “One of the best firsthand accounts ever written about organized gambling. 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.

Steven Barthelme (born 1947) is the author of numerous short stories and essays. His published works include And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story, Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss (with brother Frederick Barthelme), and The Early Posthumous Work (essays which originally appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American, Elle Decor, and other publications). His brothers Donald and Frederick also became notable authors. His father, Donald Barthelme, was a well-known Modernist architect in Houston.

He won Pushcart Prizes in 1993 and 2005, and in 2004 he won the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award for work published in Yale Review.^[1] Barthelme is said to write in a distinctive 'post-Southern' style.^[2]

He is the director of The Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi.^[3]

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Collections[edit]

“Double Down” is a book written by two literature professor brothers who become addicted to casino gambling in Mississippi. The book describes their family backgrounds, outlook on the world, and then goes on to describe their casino gambling experience. Mississippi Books and Writers November 1999. Note: Prices listed below reflect the publisher's suggested list price. They are subject to change without notice. Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Nonfiction by Frederick Barthelme and Steven Barthelme. Houghton Mifflin (Hardcover, $24.00, ISBN: ).

And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story. Johns Hopkins, 1987.
The Early Posthumous Work. Red Hen Press, 2010.
Hush Hush: Stories. Melville House, 2012.

Nonfiction[edit]

'White Guy.' Brevity, 2011.^[4]
'Talent and Fifty Cents'. Essay Daily, 2014
Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Awards[edit]

Pushcart Prize, short story, 'Claire,' from Yale Review, 2005
Listed in '100 Distinguished Short Stories' Best American Short Stories 2004, 2004
Texas Institute of Letters, Short Story Award. 'Claire,' 2004
Mississippi Arts Commission Artist's Fellowship, Fiction, 2000
Texas Institute of Letters, O.Henry Award for Magazine Journalism, 'Good Losers' [from The New Yorker, co-authored with Frederick Barthelme], 2000^[5]

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^'MWP: Steve Barthelme (1947–)'.
^'Eudora Welty Series'.
^'Faculty Publications since 1990'. Archived from the original on May 2, 2007. Retrieved April 2, 2009.
^'White Guy'.
^'Publications and Awards: Steven Barthelme'.

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