Delighted to share Christopher Sorrentino’s advance praise for Lance Olsen’s An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies (Dzanc Books):

“Like a bastard child of Wittgenstein’s Mistress and Little Big Man, An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies offers the reader a tour de force valedictory monologue—in this case, from Henry Darger, the janitor, loner, and great American artist. In ventriloquizing this obsessive, occasionally stomach-churning, dryly comic, and strangely elegiac account, Lance Olsen brilliantly gives us the singular perspective of a lifelong outsider while reifying the artist’s methods, assembling Henry’s consciousness from secondhand language, popular culture, advertising, decontextualized history, and quasireligious fervor, tracing and retracing the wanderings of an opulent imagination confined within the most stunted of lives. A fantastic book.”
—Christopher Sorrentino, author of The Fugitives and Now Beacon, Now Sea

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