Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

Danielle Dutton is the author of the novels Margaret the First and SPRAWL, the prose collection Attempts at a Life, the illustrated nonfiction chapbook A Picture Held Us Captive, and she wrote the text interpolations for Richard Kraft’s Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera. Her fiction has appeared in magazines and journals including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The White Review, Harper’s, BOMB, and NOON. Dutton teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and is cofounder and editor of the award-winning feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project. Born and raised in California, she has lived on the (former) prairie now for roughly twenty years.

“Pieces included in Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other are not short stories or essays in the strict (and limited) sense, but spells, incantatory hallucinations, organically shared phantasmagoria, bodily immersions in materials worldly and other-wordly. It is a book and yet it is definitely way more: a field of irruptions. This is Dutton at her best yet.” — cristina rivera garza, MacArthur “genius” and author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer; “Danielle Dutton is a writer whose work I wait for. When a new book comes, I keep it very close, marveling at how her writing combines such extraordinary acts of precision, drawing forth strangeness and new presentations of beauty, with her own singular and searching, expansive style of intelligence. Her growing body of work is among the most formally inventive (and therefore essential) I can think of, and Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other is a vital, enlivening addition to it.” —kate briggs, Windham-Campbell Prize winner and author of This Little Art; "I know it sounds absurd, but I am fairly certain that some undiscovered, hallucinogenic essence is working through Danielle Dutton's surreal and disorienting prose because the prairie I thought I knew is not, I now realize, the prairie I know at all. !Carajo! Whatever chaos or existential doubt is unearthed by these uncanny and highly stylized contemporary parables deserves to be played out. This book is so wild – I'm obsessed." —Lara Mimosa Montes

• - PrairieNocturne These Bad Things Installation Lost Lunar Apogee My Wonderful Description of Flowers- DressesSixty-Six Dresses I Have Read- ArtA Picture Held Us Captive - OtherOne Woman and Two Great Men Acorn Not WritingSomehow A Double Room Writing Advice To Want for Nothing Story with a Hole Pool of Tears (a play in one act)