Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Book lovers, get ready to celebrate because the 26th edition of the nation’s finest and largest literary gathering, Miami Book Fair International (Fair), is just around the corner. Presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College (MDC), the Fair will take place Nov. 8 – 15 at the college’s Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., in downtown Miami. The Fair...
Airborne Combat Engineer (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
From the Georgia Center for the Book Robert Olen Butler reads from his new novel "Hell' at 7:15 at the Decatur Library tonight.
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Last week Wednesday, my wife and I attended the unveiling of the official poster and program of authors and activities for the Miami Book Fair International presented by the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at ECCO Pizzateca and Lounge in downtown Miami. Created by Jeff Kinney , author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, the poster's subtle visual humor was a welcome addition to the array from...
The Hunterdon County Children's Writers and... (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Woe is the artist… We artists struggle with many things – How to make money while pursuing our art? How to ignore the household chores so you can write without guilt? How to ignore distractions like the telephone, long conversations with a good friend, email, blogging, etc. ? Do I exercise now in this spare time or work on my novel? Do I write this in present or past tense, in first or...
Throughlines (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. - Andy Goldsworthy For me, writing starts with a line, or some imagination, or some notion, and I just go with it as far as I can. You set yourself afloat on the language. - Thomas Lynch We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut Write from what you know into what you don't know. -...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Robert Olen Butler’s slapdash “Hell” deserves shelf space there.
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
This month Robert Thompson provided most of the book titles with additions by Cindy Hannikman, Liviu Suciu and Mihir Wanchoo . We are featuring 75 books. Since we have quite a few books and we want to keep the post manageable and easily navigable, so people do not give up halfway through the list, we are doing just covers, titles, links, but no blurbs. Click on any link and you will find more information...
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Design credit to come Robert Olen Butler has been tweeting as the Devil ( hat tip to Jacket Copy ), and there's some good stuff: "He once sold the Britannica door to door & betrayed a hundred fragile hearts & now he eternally reads lies about his sins on Wikipedia." I love the Robert Goulet meets Bob Dobbs illustration (especially the horns / hair), and Hail Satan! for the restrained,...
Western Fiction Review (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
“Read it without delay” – Max Evans “A writer of extraordinary originality and promise” – Robert Olen Butler “I look forward to many years of entertainment from Joseph West” – Loren D. Estleman First I want to thank you for agreeing to answer my questions Joe. You’re most welcome, Steve. It’s an honor to be here. You’re originally...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
Robert Olen Butler is an author with a flair for the big concept. Inspired by the information that consciousness lasts for 1.5 minutes after decapitation, he wrote "Severance," 62 short (240-word) stories of the last thoughts of those, real and...
Collin Kelley...Modern Confessional (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Just got in from the media launch for the 2009 Decatur Book Festival at Eddie's Attic. They've got some really big names coming this year including a keynote address by Sir Harold Evans, Lee Child, Kathy Reichs, Robert Olen Butler, Douglas Blackmon, Edward Hirsch, Natasha Trethewey, Felice Picano, C. Dale Young, Kathryn Stockett, Patricia Smith, Thomas Lux, Rick Bragg and many more, including me. What...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
A few years ago, I worked at a used bookstore in Fairfax, Virginia. I found a lot of interesting stuff tucked into various books or written on their pages as I sorted through the incoming boxes, but my favorite discovery fell out of a copy of Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent From A Strange [...]
~生まれた町で夢見てきた...~ (Free subscription) | 01/18/2009
Butler, Robert Olen. Intercourse: Stories . San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008. Summary : A series of brief, paired monologues a people in moments of sexual intimacy. Includes couples historial, mythological, and imagined...from Adam and Eve to Santa Claus and one of his elves (not Mrs. Claus). Comments : One of Robert Olen Butler's previous short story collections Severance explored the minds of...
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,...
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.
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