{"id":29890,"date":"2022-11-28T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=29890"},"modified":"2022-12-02T15:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T19:28:40","slug":"danielle-dutton-my-wonderful-description-of-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2022\/11\/28\/danielle-dutton-my-wonderful-description-of-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Dutton: “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“My Wonderful Description of Flowers”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby Danielle Dutton<\/span>
\nfrom the December 5, 2022 issue of\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

\"\"I don’t know Danielle Dutton’s writing work, but let’s just get right to it: I love this opening paragraph.<\/p>\n

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Last night my husband dreamed I left him, though my husband never dreams, or if he does he dreams of nothing\u2014of sending an e-mail, petting the cat. \u201cI live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future,\u201d Rilke, and not my husband, said. My husband brought up his dream over breakfast, but I had an early day, errands, a million meetings. I was almost out the door.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is my kind of writing these days, and to bring in Rilke, and in such clever way, I’m very excited to see what Dutton’s writing is like.<\/p>\n

It’s not too surprising that I’m a fan. Dutton worked for Dalkey Archive for a while and then founded Dorothy, a publishing project, in 2010. I’ve been a fan all these years! And now I’m encouraged greatly to go check out her writing. Catapult published her novel\u00a0Margaret the First<\/em>, so that’s where I’m going soon!<\/p>\n

Let me know what you think of this story and if you’ve read any of her other work!<\/p>\n<\/div>