From Where You Dream

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author “shares his insights into—and passion for—the creation and experience of fiction with total openness” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).   Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River , A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, and A Small Hotel , teaches graduate fiction at Florida State University—his version of literary boot camp. In From Where You Dream , Butler reimagines the process of writing as emotional rather than intellectual, and tells writers ho