In one of this author's stories, Batman and Commissioner Gordon begin conversing in French, after it is revealed that Robin is doing badly in French at Andover.
In one of this author's stories, Batman and Commissioner Gordon begin conversing in French, after it is revealed that Robin is doing badly in French at Andover. In another of his stories, a man wrangling porcupines is confronted by a Gatling gun-wielding dean, who doesn't want them to enroll at his university. He wrote a story in which a teacher has sex in a cloakroom with a sixth-grader who is constantly worried about his height, because he's actually a thirty-five-year-old insurance claims adjuster. The protagonist is betrayed by his love Sylvia to the Comanches in his story "The (*) Indian Uprising." In another story by him, every living thing adopted by a schoolÂ—including trees, tropical fish, and a Korean orphanÂ—dies mysteriously. Although he repeatedly said: "fragments are the only forms I trust," he wrote novels, including a retelling of Snow White. For 10 points, name this American postmodernist, whose collections include Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Sixty Stories, and Forty Stories.  
In one of this author's stories, Batman and Commissioner Gordon begin conversing in French, after it is revealed that Robin is doing badly in French at Andover.
Donald Barthelme