The Virginian Pilot, January 12th, 1997
Byline: JULIE HALE TABLOID DREAMS ROBERT OLEN BUTLER Henry Holt. 203 pp. $22.50. With his brilliant new book of stories, Tabloid Dreams, Robert Olen Butler takes readers into a literary twilight zone where irrationality and reason walk hand in hand, and the impossible becomes plausible. Tabloid headlines provide Butler with the basis for the dozen pieces that comprise his first story collection since A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Titles like ``Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover'' and ``Woman Loses Cookie Bake-off, Sets Self on Fire'' might lead re...
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