{"title":"Books by Danielle Dutton","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781940696775","title":"SPRAWL","description":"\u003cp\u003e“SPRAWL in fact does not sprawl at all; rather, it radiates with control and fresh, strange reflection.” —\u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reads as if Gertrude Stein channeled Alice B. Toklas writing an Arcades Project set in contemporary suburbia.” —\u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Danielle Dutton’s \u003cem\u003eSPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens the space of SPRAWL’s  “fierce,  careful composition”—as  \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e wrote—“which changes the ordinary into the wonderful and odd.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToday I fell asleep in the tall grass near the old train station. It was a complete picture. A fashionable park. Yet the picture had its sordid and selfish aspect. I can’t seem to say what I mean, Mrs. Barbauld, but with some urgency I mean to inform you what a triumph the big city has become. I am a secular individual but even I can feel the shift in the horizon utterly alien to the constitution of things, the habitual. Sincerely, etc. I move in shade on the edge of a parking lot under walnut trees in the early morning around the edge of a curve in an accidental manner. I walk the sidewalk and ripple the surface of it. From this condition I have a view of the world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDanielle Dutton \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of \u003cem\u003eMargaret the First, SPRAWL\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAttempts at a Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review, Harper’s, The White  Review, Fence, BOMB\u003c\/em\u003e,  and others. She is on the faculty of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis and is co-founder and editor of the feminist press Dorothy, a publishing project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309628404085,"sku":"9781940696775","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781940696775_b82a8872-93e2-406e-baf0-572cbdf59ae0.jpg?v=1786030836"},{"product_id":"9781948980258","title":"To After That (TOAF)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, \u003ci\u003eTo After That (TOAF)\u003c\/i\u003e introduced a new kind of writing—somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy—that Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like \u003ci\u003eCalamities\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Lesbian Novel\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTOAF\u003c\/i\u003e is a recuperative song, an effort to give space and life to an abandoned project, but it is also, itself, a beautiful meditation on process and distance and duration, and a reminder that time is the subject of any writing.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309702754677,"sku":"9781948980258","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781948980258_44c514b8-2fac-4460-971b-5ce33153d0b0.jpg?v=1786030644"},{"product_id":"9781913513535","title":"Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePrairie, Dresses, Art, Other\u003c\/em\u003e, Danielle Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. Dutton’s writing is as protean as it is beguiling, using the different styles and different spaces of experience to create a collage of the depths and strangeness of contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection covers an inventive selection of subjects in four eponymous sections which contrast and echo one another, challenging our expectations and pushing the limits of the dream-like worlds and moods that language might create.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313166463349,"sku":"9781913513535","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913513535_4cd0ea83-d462-4228-bc50-8672e49075cd.jpg?v=1786035009"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-danielle-dutton.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}