In the eighth installment in BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series, Dannielle Dutton reads an excerpt from her novel S P R A W L, published by Siglio Press, which appeared in the Summer Issue #112 of BOMB’s literary supplement, First Proof.
Part of the Fiction for Driving series.
Danielle Dutton © Katrin Lepler.
BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America Series
SPRAWL by Danielle Dutton
Read by Danielle Dutton
Recorded in the home studio of Hand-Made Records
Running Time: 14:54
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I walk through streets and look in windows to witness cheerfully painted walls and vertical lamps, high technical quality and surround-sound, mystery, beauty, fry baskets, fried chicken legs, joy sticks, shelves, ovens, beans.
February 1 marked the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth, and we’re celebrating with a selection of the British master’s aphorisms, notes, and observations.
4 June 2010, Edinburgh. The brightness of the morning. Sky flat. No clouds. When he came into her room with coffee she was already awake.
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Featuring interviews with Dan Asher, Elizabeth Streb and A.M Homes, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Sebastiaan Bremer and Shoshana Dentz, Alain Mabanckou and Binyavanga Wainaina, Jennifer Egan, Edward Droste, Cynthia Hopkins, and Joan Jonas.
I don’t think an artist and a shaman actually have that much difference if we go back, way back, in time. Today, it’s just gotten so wrapped up in intellectual stuff that we’ve gotten far away from a basic truth about what artists do in the world.
Lucy Dodd
