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Christine Schutt: Pure Hollywood
Christine Schutt says her writing takes place in a danger zone. In Pure Hollywood, one novella and ten stories, she writes beyond weird, at a level that both frightens and empowers.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenChristine Schutt says her writing takes place in a danger zone. In Pure Hollywood, one novella and ten stories, she writes beyond weird, at a level that both frightens and empowers. These are minimalistic stories crafted to reveal peculiar sensations and singular, perverse sentences. In these elegant stories everyone is dissatisfied, creepiness has a comic edge, and no one is going to be saved.
Photos by Christopher Ho.
