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Following the successful literary musings on art at the Frick, The
Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Cocktails with a Curator, this
anthology of newly commissioned texts from graduate students in New
York University s Creative Writing Program pays homage to one of
the institution s most celebrated paintings. Gathered here are
fourteen fictional stories inspired by one of Ingres s most
captivating portrait paintings. A detail of the work the fine silk
dress, a red ribbon, a shawl casually draped over the arm of a
chair, the contents of a tabletop, the contemplative pose is the
starting point for each story. The pieces range from gothic tales
that take place at the time of the painting in the mid-nineteenth
century and stories that use the countess as a key character to a
present-day ghost story and inventive sagas that take
representations of the countess to faraway lands: Poland, Trinidad
and Tobago, Brazil, India, and a heaven that is populated solely by
Black people. The faculty adviser for the project is best-selling
novelist Darin Strauss, who writes the book s introduction.
Illustrated with Ingres s famous portrait as well as with many lush
details, this one-of-a-kind volume is an ode, both traditional and
postmodern, to a glorious work of art.
Read Darin Strauss's posts on the Penguin Blog Josh Goldin's happy
yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife,
Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in
severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician
and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed
and controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms her
baby. As each of them is forced to confront a reality that has
become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are pushed to their
breaking points. Darin Strauss's extraordinary novel is set in a
world turned upside down-where doctors try to save babies from
their parents, police use the law to tear families apart, and the
people you think you know best end up surprising you the most.
In this stunning novel, Darin Strauss combines fiction with astonishing fact to tell the story of history’s most famous twins. Born in Siam in 1811—on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River—Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Touring the world’s stages as a circus act, they settled in the American South just prior to the Civil War. They eventually married two sisters from North Carolina, fathering twenty-one children between them, and lived for more than six decades never more than seven inches apart, attached at the chest by a small band of skin and cartilage. Woven from the fabric of fact, myth, and imagination, Strauss’s narrative gives poignant, articulate voice to these legendary brothers, and humanizes the freakish legend that grew up around them. Sweeping from the Far East and the court of the King of Siam to the shared intimacy of their lives in America, Chang and Eng rescues one of the nineteenth century’s most fabled human oddities from the sideshow of history, drawing from their extraordinary lives a novel of exceptional power and beauty.
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