Citizen Parrot
9781616964795
192 pages
Tachyon Publications Llc
Overview
2027 SPRING/SUMMER LEAD TITLE
Robert Olen Butler (Tabloid Dreams) returns to form with this beautifully wrought, satiric journey from the Civil War to the political frenzy of 2024. Citizen Parrot is an absurd, touching, and redemptive allegory of deep social unrest
Inspired by Butler’s acclaimed New Yorker story, Citizen Parrot expands upon the breakdown of communication in one relationship to encompass the complete breakdown of discourse in modern-day America
Butler has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Pulitzer Prize, and two National Magazine Awards
Author appearances to include Winter Institute, the ALA Conference, and the International Convention for the Fantastic in the Arts
Author Bio
Robert Olen Butler has published nineteen novels and six volumes of short stories, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2014 he was the seventeenth recipient of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award and he has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow. Butler’s works have been translated into twenty-one languages, including Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Polish, Japanese, Serbian, Farsi, Czech, Estonian, and Greek. His book on the creative process, From Where You Dream is widely used in creative writing classes. Butler is a Krafft Distinguished Professor holding the Michael Shaara Chair in Creative Writing at Florida State University.
