Blake Butler: 8 books

Book cover of Sky Saw
by Blake Butler
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012

"If there's a more thoroughly brilliant and exciting new writer than Blake Butler . . . well, there just isn't."-Dennis Cooper"Blake Butler, mastermind and visionary, has sneaked up and drugged the American novel."-Ben MarcusI could go on at what these days were but the truth is I am...
Book cover of There Is No Year
by Blake Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author." —Time Out New York "[Butler's] sentences. . . twist and evolve, and there's a perverse joy that comes from watching just how his paragraphs are shaped, of...
Book cover of Scorch Atlas
by Blake Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009

In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of mold. But a few are able to survive and find a light...
Book cover of Nothing

Nothing

A Memoir of Insomnia

by Blake Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011

One of the most acclaimed young voices of his generation, Blake Butler now offers his first work of nonfiction: a deeply candid and wildly original look at the phenomenon of insomnia. Invoking scientific data, historical anecdote, Internet obsession, and figures as diverse as Andy Warhol, Gilles...
Book cover of Three Hundred Million
by Blake Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

An unforgettable novel of an American suburb devastated by a fiendish madman—the most ambitious and important work yet by “the 21st century answer to William Burroughs” (Publishers Weekly). Blake Butler’s fiction has dazzled readers with its dystopian dreamscapes and swaggering command...
Book cover of Bomb

Bomb

The Author Interviews

by Bomb Magazine, Mary Gaitskill, Junot Díaz
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014

Thirty years of interviews that offer “a window into the minds and the writing processes of some of the world’s best practitioners of poetry and prose” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Since 1981, the quarterly magazine Bomb has been the gold standard for artist-on-artist interviews,...
Book cover of Movies in the Age of Obama

Movies in the Age of Obama

The Era of Post-Racial and Neo-Racist Cinema

by Linda Belau, Thomas Britt, Sonya C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014

The historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States had a significant impact on both America and the world at large. By voting an African American into the highest office, those who elected Obama did not necessarily look past race, but rather didn’t let race prevent them...
Book cover of Antidemocracy in America

Antidemocracy in America

Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk

by Michelle Wilde Anderson, Lisa Wade, Thomas J. Sugrue
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
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