Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler was born in 1945. He is the author of twelve novels and six collections of stories, including a Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
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Photo by Nada Bakri. This week, Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone – which tells...
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Robert Olen Butler
‘I wake and it’s dark and a woman is beside me, naked and small, and she is waking too and the room is still heavy with the incense she burned for her dead.’