Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, will speak at Words & Music, 2017 during the Literature & Lunch session at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, December 8, at Arnaud’s Restaurant – Creole Cottage. Bob Butler is not only one of the very best American writers, he is one of the very few fiction writers who also are … Robert Olen Butler at Arnaud’s
One of the highlights of New Orleans literary calendar, the Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26) is celebrating its thirty-first year of festivities in 2017. Over its three decades, the festival has faithfully brought acclaimed poets, writers and playwrights from across the country down to the French Quarter, at once celebrating the rich legacy of its … RM220’s Picks for the Best Panels and Other Events at the 2017 Tennessee Williams Festival (March 22 – 26)
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
A few days ago we posted a short blurb about Robert Olen Butler’s new novel, A Small Hotel, and suggested, based on some blogger’s speculation at the L.A. Times, that its content might resemble some of the lived circumstances the author encountered during a recent divorce. We found this short note from Butler in our … Some Friendly Advice from Robert Olen Butler
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’
