Robert Olen Butler

Thursday, 6:30 p.m., SCAD Atlanta, Welcome Center, second floor, 1600 Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, Ga. Robert Olen Butler published 11 novels, "The Alleys of Eden," "Sun Dogs," "Countrymen of Bones," "On Distant Ground," "Wabash," "The Deuce," "They Whisper," "The Deep Green Sea," "Mr. Spaceman," "Fair ... (more)Warning," "Hell." His 12th novel, "A Small Hotel," is due this August. He published six volumes of short fiction, "Tabloid Dreams," "Had a Good Time," "Severance," "Intercourse," "Weegee Stories" and "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain," which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. And, he published a volume of his lectures on the creative process, "From Where You Dream," edited with an introduction by Janet Burroway. A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. His stories have appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Zoetrope, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares and The Sewanee Review. He is a Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University. Admission to the Ivy Hall Writers Series is $15 per person. Admission is free for SCAD students, professors and staff with a valid ID. A book signing is available after the event with the purchase of a book. For more information, contact Lee Barry Todd at ltodd@scad.edu or (404) 253-3324.

Granite City's own Pulitzer Prize winner, Robert Olen Butler, will be signing his new novel "A Small Hotel" at the Branch Library at 2:30 p.m. on Sat, Sept. 10th. The public is invited.

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler has written fiction about far-ranging topics including hell, extraterrestrials, and the Vietnam War. With A Small Hotel, his twelfth novel, he has turned his attention to a new topic — the complexities of a male-female relationship — and delivers a beautifully ... (more)told story of love, loss, and redemption. Set in contemporary New Orleans but working its way back in time, A Small Hotel chronicles the relationship between Michael and Kelly Hayes, who have decided to separate after twenty years of marriage. The book begins on the day that the Hays are to finalize their divorce. Kelly is due to be in court, but instead she drives from her home in Pensacola, Florida, across the panhandle to New Orleans and checks into Room 303 at the Olivier House in the city’s French Quarter — the hotel where she and Michael fell in love some twenty years earlier and where she now finds herself about to make a decision that will forever affect her, Michael, and their nineteen-year-old daughter, Samantha. Butler masterfully weaves scenes of the present with memories from both the viewpoint of Michael and Kell y— scenes that span twenty years, taking the reader back to critical moments in the couple's relationship and showing two people deeply in love but also struggling with their own insecurities and inabilities to express this love. An intelligent, deeply moving, and remarkably written portrait of a relationship that reads as a cross between a romance novel and a literary page turner, A Small Hotel is a masterful story that will remind readers once again why Robert Olen Butler has been called the "best living American writer" (Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram) If you cannot attend the reading, but would like a signed copy of A Small Hotel, you may reserve it at http://acappellabooks.com/ev_ro_butle... .

Robert Olen Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, visits us to discuss his stunning new novel, Hell. It's a hilarious romp all about good, evil and free will, and one of the yerar's best novels. You'll meet a television news anchorman now residing in hell and living with Anne Boleyn, surrounded ... (more)by a remarkable cast of characters including Shakespeare, Humphrey Bogart, and most of the popes and former U.S. presidents. It promises to be a fun evening! Butler won the Pulitzer for his book, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.

Kris Downs will be the discussion leader. The book is: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler. Contact the Reference Desk to reserve a copy of the book.

Robert Olen Butler will be joining us at Square Books to sign his new book, Intercourse.