Robert Olen Butler

Hương thơm từ núi lạ là một tập truyện ngắn của Robert Olen Butler được xuất bản năm 1992. Tác phẩm đã đem lại cho tác giả giải Pulitzer cho tác phẩm hư cấu năm 1993. Mỗi câu chuyện trong tập được kể bởi một người Mỹ gốc Việt đang cư ngụ tại Louisiana. Chủ đề chủ yếu trong tập truyện là sự khác biệt văn hóa giữa Mỹ và …

From Where You Dream:The Process of writing fiction This book is a transcription and condensation of Robert Olen Butler's Masters class on writing. Put together and edited by Janet Burroway, it emphasizes dreamspace or unconscious writing as opposed to thinking or analytical writing in order to create a good or true …

Hatcher McCord is an evening news presenter who has found himself in Hell and is struggling to explain his bad fortune. He’s not the only one to suffer this fatein fact, he’s surrounded by an outrageous cast of characters, including Humphrey Bogart, William Shakespeare, and almost all of the popes and most of the U.S. …

The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler …

In an attempt to make sense of his disappointing life, a thirty-five-year-old man explores his sexual history with the woman of his childhood fantasies, a series of Vietnamese prostitutes, a stranger, and his jealous wife. Reprint.