{"title":"Danielle Dutton","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"prairie-dresses-art-other","title":"Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #77471f;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterary Collection by Danielle Dutton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApril 23, 2024 • 5 x 7.5 • 176 pages • 9781566897037\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4 type=\"cite\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__quote\" data-stringify-type=\"quote\"\u003eFrom the “strikingly smart and daringly feminist” (Jenny Offill) author of \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp type=\"cite\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__quote\" data-stringify-type=\"quote\"\u003e“Luminous” (\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and “brilliantly odd” (\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eThe Irish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e), Danielle Dutton’s writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/i\u003e, Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of these varied materials, Dutton builds a haunting landscape of wildflowers, megadams, black holes, violence, fear, virtual reality, abiding strangeness, and indefinable beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDanielle Dutton’s previous books are \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAttempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals including \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNOON\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2024 \u003cem\u003eBig Other\u003c\/em\u003e Book Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eDocument\u003c\/em\u003e Top Read of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Book of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eRumpus\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Book of (early) 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Bookshop.org Most Anticipated Book of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eMillions\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“A shimmering and perplexing work that challenges the constraints of traditional prose… Highbrow while remaining mischievously playful, reminiscent of the form-smashing thrills of writers like Lydia Davis and Anne Carson.” \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Relentlessly surprising and thoroughly original, this dazzles.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Divided into the title’s four rubrics, the volume still permits us to glide across and through disparate subjects and forms eased by Dutton’s serenely discerning voice, one so studded with alert perceptions that the book possesses a poetic density belying its slender size.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Albert Mobilio, \u003cem\u003e4Columns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“How the world has changed since the Brontë sisters wrote of long walks over the moors, or Virginia Woolf of flowers, trees, water, sky. The texture of those writers is all over these pages, and you can almost hear Dutton talking to them, saying, \u003cem\u003eLook what’s happened!\u003c\/em\u003e Saying, \u003cem\u003eIs there a future?\u003c\/em\u003e” \u003cstrong\u003e—Deb Olin Unferth, \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"This is one everyone will be talking about.\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Emily Firetog, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Dutton’s work is always formally inventive, refreshingly ambitious, and totally brilliant.”\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[Dutton stitches] together recurring dreams, real and imagined botanical terms, and dialogue from novels and films to create a tapestry of the desolation of modern life and the flimsiness of our protections against environmental collapse.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Helen Hill, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"You’re never sure whether Dutton is still on the outside, or getting at the narrator’s anxiety within. But that uncertainty feels part of this project, which gives us not just a cycle of stylishly observed stories but also, midway through, the tools to read them.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Lucy Thynne, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s easy for one to assume that prairies might be the landscapes hiding inside Dutton herself. Like prairies, Dutton’s writing feels expansive, eternal, spreading out in all directions, far beyond you—far past any kind of vanishing point.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Nikki Barnhart, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Danielle Dutton, maskless hero of a lyrical avant-garde, has written a new book that is certain to challenge assumptions about contemporary American literature.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Eric Bies, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Letters Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A welcome addition to the boundary-resistant genre of 'weird little book.'\" \u003cstrong\u003e—Dan Irving, \u003cem\u003eAnnulet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Danielle Dutton’s collection \u003cem\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/em\u003e is modern creative nonfiction at its best, a collection of original and inventive pieces that defy literary categorization.” \u003cstrong\u003e—David Gutowski, \u003cem\u003eLargehearted Boy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Writing ignites “a politics of attention” in Danielle Dutton’s literary, unconventional collection \u003cem\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/em\u003e, whose entries are bound by energy, sharp awareness of the world’s dangers, family relationships, and the topic of writing itself.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Karen Rigby, \u003cem\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Pieces included in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e are not short stories or essays in the strict (and limited) sense, but spells, incantatory hallucinations, organically shared phantasmagoria, bodily immersions in materials worldly and other-wordly. It is a book and yet it is definitely way more: a field of irruptions. This is Dutton at her best yet.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Cristina Rivera Garza\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I know it sounds absurd, but I am fairly certain that some undiscovered, hallucinogenic essence is working through Danielle Dutton’s surreal and disorienting prose because the prairie I thought I knew is not, I now realize, the prairie I know at all. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e¡Carajo!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Whatever chaos or existential doubt is unearthed by these uncanny and highly stylized contemporary parables deserves to be played out. This book is so wild—I’m obsessed.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lara Mimosa Montes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDanielle Dutton is a writer whose work I wait for. When a new book comes, I keep it very close, marveling at how her writing combines such extraordinary acts of precision, drawing forth strangeness and new presentations of beauty, with her own singular and searching, expansive style of intelligence. Her growing body of work is among the most formally inventive (and therefore essential) I can think of, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a vital, enlivening addition to it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —Kate Briggs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This surreal, (in)sightful collection of essays and stories is riotous and sublime, a love letter to making art.”\u003cstrong\u003e —Mairead Small Staid\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/em\u003e is an absorbing assemblage of surrealist prose threaded with deep unease. Danielle Dutton’s densely woven psychological landscapes render the world as strange, slippery, and surprising as some of us believe it to be.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Kathryn Scanlan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CHPbeta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44667057864946,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1475\/9808\/files\/Prairie.jpg?v=1695744606"}],"url":"https:\/\/coffeehousepress.org\/collections\/danielle-dutton.oembed","provider":"Coffee House Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}