LBB Presents: Danielle Dutton - Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

Left Bank Books presents Danielle Dutton, English professor at Washington University in St. Louis and cofounder and editor of Dorothy, a publishing project. Join us to celebrate the release of "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other," a most anticipated book of 2024! Kirkus describes the book as a "shimmering and perplexing work that challenges the constraints of traditional prose." Dutton will be in conversation with Kathryn Davis, award winning author and senior fiction writer on the faculty of The Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Dutton will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on April 29th. Join us on Tuesday, April 30, at 6pm at Left Bank Books 399 N Euclid Ave St. Louis, MO 63108 Please RSVP as space is limited: https://forms.gle/9iHYZZehdB9nb9H86 Watch the livestream on Left Bank Books' YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@LeftBankBooks/streams Order the book: https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781566897037 About the Speakers: Danielle Dutton's previous books are "Margaret the First," "SPRAWL," and "Attempts at a Life." Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals including "The New Yorker," "Harper's," "The Paris Review," "BOMB," "The White Review," and "NOON." Dutton teaches at Washington University in Saint Louis and is the cofounder and editor of Dorothy, a publishing project. Born and raised in California, she has lived on the (former) prairie for nearly twenty years. Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels, the most recent of which is "The Silk Road" (2019), and the memoir "Aurelia, Aurélia" (2022). Her other books are "Labrador" (1988), "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf" (1993), "Hell: A Novel" (1998), "The Walking Tour" (1999), "Versailles" (2002), "The Thin Place" (2006), and "Duplex" (2013). She has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, both the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award and the Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she won the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of The Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis. About "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other": Literary Hub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2024" The Rumpus, "Most Anticipated Books of (early) 2024" Bookshop.org "100 Most Anticipated Books of 2024" From the "strikingly smart and daringly feminist" (Jenny Offill) author of "Margaret the First" and "SPRAWL" comes a prose collection like no other, where different styles of writing and different spaces of experience create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life. "Luminous" ( The Guardian) and "brilliantly odd" ( The Irish Independent), Danielle Dutton's writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other," Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. "Prairie" is a cycle of surreal stories set in the quickly disappearing prairieland of the American Midwest. "Dresses" offers a surprisingly moving portrait of literary fashions. "Art" turns to essay, examining how works of visual art and fiction might relate to one another, a question central to the whole book; while the final section, "Other," includes pieces of irregular ("other") forms, stories-as-essays or essays-as-stories that defy category and are hilarious and heartbreaking by turns. Out of these varied materials, Dutton builds a haunting landscape of wildflowers, megadams, black holes, violence, fear, virtual reality, abiding strangeness, and indefinable beauty.

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