Reading from Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler

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"Zeus and Leda (preview)"

Bob read from his collection Intercourse at the Narrative Night in Santa Fe in October 2007. The stories play on the intimate pairings of historical and other notable personages. You can find more selections from the collection in the Narrative Library.

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Robert Olen Butler is the author of numerous works of fiction, including A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, which won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize; Weegee Stories (Narrative Library, 2010); A Small Hotel; The Hot Country; The Star of Istanbul (Mysterious Press, 2013); and the story collection Tabloid Dreams, which has been reissued (Grove, 2013). Among his numerous accolades are two National Magazine Awards in Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His book on the creative process for fiction writers, From Where You Dream, is widely used in classrooms. Butler teaches creative writing at Florida State University.

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