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To Learn the Language of Feeling: An Interview with Robert Olen Butler

By Nathan C. Martin A few weeks ago I posted a flippant comment on Room 220 about how the narrative in Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, A Small Hotel, might in some ways resemble a real-life divorce he had gone through not long ago. Butler called me out on my erroneous post, saying I should … To Learn the Language of Feeling: An Interview with Robert Olen Butler

The Divorce Book Following the Divorce: Robert Olen Butler’s ‘A Small Hotel’

Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, A Small Hotel, follows the final falling-apart of a long marriage, set in a room in the Olivier House in the French Quarter—the couple had fallen in love in that hotel, and it’s where the wife returned the day before the divorce proceedings. By all indications, it sounds like a … The Divorce Book Following the Divorce: Robert Olen Butler’s ‘A Small Hotel’