“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He picked up a dining room table chair and threw it into a closed window. The window shattered. He said, ‘That’s a lesson about virginity. Do you understand?’ to which they replied, ‘Yes sir.’” Okay, wow, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lydia Millet’
Is it September yet?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Coffee House Press, Kate Bernheimer, Lydia Millet on May 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Coffee House Press does it again! To be released in September, 2010, Kate Bernheimer’s Horse, Flower, Bird is illustrated by none other than Rikki Ducornet and blurbed by Pulitzer finalist Lydia Millet. Here’s the scoop: In Kate Bernheimer’s familiar and spare—yet wondrous—world, an exotic dancer builds her own cage, a wife tends a secret basement [...]
Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Coffee House Press, Kate Bernheimer, Lydia Millet, Mathias Svalina, Selah Saterstrom, The Pink Institution on February 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I can’t thank Mathias Svalina enough for introducing me to Selah Saterstrom. Her first novel, The Pink Institution (Coffee House Press, 2004), offers up such stark, spare language as to mimic the fragmented, but forever life-altering, moments in the lives of her (many generations of) women, not one of whom escapes her own special brand [...]
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