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Robert Olen Butler
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in Granite City, Illinois, The United States
January 20, 1945
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July 28th: Of all the vistas before me this past month—lush and exotic and teeming—this was the most beautiful: my writing space at 3:30 this morning. 8 hours and 45 minutes later, 1037 words.
July 26th: On flight between Istanbul & home, the vitreous in my right eye detached. Common for 67. Doc fixed small retina tear. Effects pass. But deadline for my novel looms & I need 2 months...
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
— published 1992 — 10 editions |
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A Small Hotel
— published 2011 — 8 editions |
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Hell
— published 2009 — 7 editions |
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From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction
by Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway — published 2005 — 4 editions |
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Severance: Stories
— published 2006 — 3 editions |
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Tabloid Dreams: Stories
— published 1996 — 5 editions |
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Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards
— published 2004 — 3 editions |
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They Whisper
— 4 editions |
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Intercourse: Stories
— published 2008 |
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The Deep Green Sea
— published 1998 — 7 editions |
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“And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice.”
― Robert Olen Butler, Hell
― Robert Olen Butler, Hell
“The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.”
― Robert Olen Butler, Hell
― Robert Olen Butler, Hell
“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”
― Robert Olen Butler
― Robert Olen Butler
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