In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless co… - Robert Olen Butler
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless co…
- Robert Olen Butler
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for… - Robert Olen Butler
Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for…
The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... B… - Robert Olen Butler
The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... B…
We are the yearning creatures of this planet. - Robert Olen Butler
We are the yearning creatures of this planet.
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers. - Robert Olen Butler
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.
Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. - Robert Olen Butler
Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we wa… - Robert Olen Butler
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we wa…
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. - Robert Olen Butler
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. - Robert Olen Butler
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
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