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Blake Butler

Biography

Blake Butler

Blake Butler is the author of acclaimed novels including 300,000,000, THERE IS NO YEAR and SCORCH ATLAS, as well as the nonfiction NOTHING: A Portrait of Insomnia. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Bookforum, Bomb and elsewhere. A founding editor of the literary blogs HTMLGiant and The Fanzine, he lives in Atlanta, GA, with his wife.

Blake Butler

Books by Blake Butler

by Blake Butler - Fiction

Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family’s fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find the artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world’s most priceless works of art are destroyed one by one, Alice finds that she has become the chief suspect in an international conspiracy --- even as her psyche becomes a shadowed landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder.