{"product_id":"prairie-dresses-art-other-9781566897037","title":"Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \"strikingly smart and daringly feminist\" (Jenny Offill) author of \u003ci\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\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\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Luminous\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"brilliantly odd\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Irish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e), Danielle Dutton's writing is as protean as it is beguiling. In the four eponymous sections of \u003ci\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/i\u003e, Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanielle Dutton's previous books are \u003ci\u003eMargaret the First\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Attempts at a Life\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in magazines and journals including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNOON\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591700222226,"sku":"9781566897037","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7022e84b-5c2b-4951-8298-bfb3506a8334.jpg?v=1732094251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/prairie-dresses-art-other-9781566897037","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}