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Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler’s last collection of short stories, Severance, imagined the final thoughts of 62 individuals having just been beheaded -- from Jayne Mansfield to Medusa. In his new collection he turns from death to sex, capturing the ruminations of folks in the midst of a somewhat more enjoyable circumstance. It's called Intercourse. In his wry, poetic style, Butler transcribes the, often worlds-apart, internal dialogues of 50 couples, including Lady Diana and Prince Charles. A Vietnam veteran, Butler won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction with A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, his collection of short stories about Vietnamese-Americans in the aftermath of the war. He teaches at Florida State University. If you could not attend the reading but would like to purchase a signed copy of Intercourse you can do so with this shopping cart. |
