Tayari's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Kelefa Sanneh talks about Tavis Smiley talking about Barack Obama. RIP Isaac Hayes and Bernie Mac . Old people say these things happen in threes. Let's hope they're wrong. The folks are the NYT are feeling stabby. Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Olen Butler , both got the smackdown on the book review page. Both were given the grade-school admonition that they aren't living up to their potential. Techinically,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
What goes through lovers’ minds during the act? Robert Olen Butler channels Bonnie and Clyde, Gertrude and Alice, and more.
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
B reaking up is hard to do, but it's probably even harder when you choose to share it with billions of your closest friends. Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Robert Olen Butler may not have intended to do that when he sent an e-mail to his five graduate students at Florida State University where he teaches. But, he wrote, because "rumors will soon be swirling around the department" that 44-year-old...
Isak (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Jane Smiley's review of Robert Olen Butler's Intercourse: Stories borrows the form that verges on Platonic dialogue. No, really. With more than a touch of humor added in. Seems to be a right strategy to describe Butler's book, which features...
Accidental Blogger (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
I haven't read the book - only seen a couple of reviews. As Sam Anderson says in the New York Books review, the collection of 50 stories, written by Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler, is a well written...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Sam Anderson reviews Robert Olen Butler's Intercourse, in NY Magazine: Robert Olen Butler???s new story collection, Intercourse, is, as its title suggests, totally about doing it. It imagines the thoughts of 50 iconic couples as they knock the proverbial boots,...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
"Intercourse" is Robert Olen Butler's set of fictional accounts of what went through the minds of various partners as they did the deed. The book begins with Adam and Eve and continues forward to Santa Claus and Ingebirgitta, an elf, in January 2008. Excerpts...
MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In 'Intercourse,' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler imagines the secret monologues of famous couples having sex.
MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
In 'Intercourse,' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler imagines the secret monologues of famous couples having sex.
The Reverse Cowgirl (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Rachel Kramer Bussel points to a new Chronicle book forthcoming from Susie Bright , X: The Erotic Treasury , a collection of erotica that includes stories by Robert Olen Butler and Carol Queen. I love the cover. "Designed in a 'gotta-touch-it' slipcase with a cloth-covered book, the package cultivates the quality and taboo satisfaction of the stories themselves."
Population Statistic (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
That wacky Robert Olen Butler is at it again. To follow up “Severance”, an offbeat short story collection about celebrity decapitations, he follows the same critical-thought motif with “Intercourse”, a collection that deals with a decidedly different experience: The keynote of Intercourse is not connection but distraction. Very few of Butler’s characters are what you would [...]
Everything And Nothing (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler imagines the coital thoughts of famous couples, including Adam and Eve, Bonnie & Clyde, Pocahontas and John Smith, Josephine Baker, the Nixons, and the Clintons, in his new short story collection, Intercourse.
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Hi, my name is Bookchronicle and I have an addiction to the Magic Farm. Yes, I have been ensared by the attraction of a cheesey Yahoo! Game for roughly 75-hours and have neither read nor written anything. This is a perfect example why it is probably a good idea that I don't have the Internet [...]
The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Robert Olen Butler's Severance (2006) consists of 240-word short-short stories, told by a series of talking heads--literally. Each plotless, stream-of-consciousness tale begins at the moment of decapitation and ends with the head's final death. The heads in question form an...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
From Laura van den Berg, Editor, Redivider "For any Robert Olen Butler fans out there, Redivider just posted a web exclusive of the title story from Butler's forthcoming collection, Intercourse, which is scheduled to be published by Chronicle Books in late May. You can check out the story at www.redividerjournal.org and, if you enjoy, of course please feel free to share."
