ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI is an Iranian-American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and is a recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Catalonia, Spain. She is co-author of the Words without Borders dispatch series ArtistsTalk: Israel/Palestine and is at work on a second project entitled The Catalan Literary Landscape, an exploration of notions of journey and the intersections between landscape and literature. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Notre Dame, and lives in Indiana with her husband.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Brian Evenson for his tireless guidance during the writing of Fra Keeler. Very special thanks to Robert Coover for his generosity and support. Deep gratitude to Michelle Latiolais and Carole Maso for their unwavering faith. A heartfelt thank you to my dearest friends and visionaries Claire Donato and Jeff Johnson. Thank you to the editors who previously published excerpts from Fra Keeler in Harp & Altar, Paul Revere’s Horse, and Dewclaw. Very special thanks to Kate Johnson.
Fra Keeler would not have been possible without the following constellation of films and books: César Aira How I Became a Nun, Attila Bartis Tranquility, Thomas Bernhard Three Novellas and The Loser, Roberto Bolaño Distant Star and By Night in Chile, Luis Buñuel Diary of a Chambermaid, Éric Chevillard Palafox and Crab Nebula, Brian Evenson The Open Curtain, Max Frisch Man in the Holocene, André Gide The Immoralist, Jean-Luc Godard Breathless, Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Madman, Witold Gombrowicz Cosmos, Knut Hamsun Hunger, Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo, Anna Kavan Ice, Imre Kertész Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Abbas Kiarostami Close-Up, Jim Krusoe Iceland, Patrice Leconte Monsieur Hire, Doris Lessing Memoirs of a Survivor, Clarice Lispector The Hour of the Star, Jean-Pierre Melville Le Circle Rouge, Marie Redonnet Hotel Splendid, Forever Valley and Rose Mellie Rose, Eric Rohmer Six Moral Tales, Daniel Paul Schreber Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Magdalena Tulli Dreams and Stones and Moving Parts, Lynne Tillman This Is Not It, Trajei Vesaas The Ice Palace, Diane Williams Romancer Erector.
DOROTHY, A PUBLISHING PROJECT
1. Renee Gladman Event Factory
2. Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
3. Renee Gladman The Ravickians
4. Manuela Draeger In the Time of the Blue Ball
5. Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Fra Keeler
6. Suzanne Scanlon Promising Young Women
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