Office at Night: a Novella - first installment online now
The first installment of Office at Night: A Novella is online now
Read it here: http://www.walkerart.org/office-at-night-a-novella
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A new installment of Office at Night will appear every weekday from March 31 through May 2, 2014
About Office at Night: A Novella
Coffee House Press and the Walker Art Center co-commissioned authors Laird Hunt and Kate Bernheimer to write a collaborative novella inspired by Edward Hoppers Office at Night (1940) from the Walkers collection. The writers describe their process as taking up residence inside the painting, imagining the lives and relationships between the enigmatic characters in Hoppers iconic painting. The story will be released as a serial on the Walkers website throughout the month of April and published as an e-book by Coffee House Press in June 2014.
The serialized novella coincides with the exhibition Hopper Drawing: A Painters Process. Organized by the Whitney in New York, its the first show to focus on the drawings and creative process of the iconic 20th century American artist, and the centerpiece of the Walkers presentation is the painting Office at Night.
About the Authors
Kate Bernheimer has been called "one of the living masters of the fairy tale. She is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales (forthcoming from Coffee House Press in August 2014) and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning and best-selling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths. She founded and edits the literary journal Fairy Tale Review.
Laird Hunt is the award-winning author of six books, including a short story collection and five novels from Coffee House Press: The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite, Ray of the Star, and Kind One, which was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. Currently on faculty in the University of Denvers Creative Writing Program, he is editor of the Denver Quarterly.
Read a Q&A with the authors and Coffee House Press publisher Chris Fischbach on the Walkers website.
Read the article Two Coffee House Press authors write novella based on Edward Hopper painting at Walker at the Star Tribune.
