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The lives of Marge Quinn, stenographer, and Abraham Chelikowsky, sometimes painter, are improvised from Edward Hopper's iconic Office at Night.

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Hunt and Bernheimer, whose books are published by Coffee House, were asked to take up residence in the painting and write a story about what's going on in that office. Hopper, who died in 1967, probably would have blessed this unique project since he commented that there was a narrative to Office at Night that would have to be supplied by the viewer. -- Pioneer Press [T]he Walker--always an adventurous museum--has gone one step further with Office at Night. As Schultz explains, she and Chris Fischbach, publisher of Coffee House Press, were brainstorming when they came up with the idea of asking two prominent writers, Laird Hunt and Kate Bernheimer, to collaborate on a novella inspired by Office at Night--in essence, Schultz says, to take up residence in the painting, coming up with one of a thousand stories that could be told about it. . . It's an experiment in narrative invention. -- Smithsonian Traditionally, curatorial institutions like the Walker and Coffee House Press are viewed as tastemakers presenting great art to audiences. Walker Education Director Sarah Schultz and her colleagues, as well as my colleagues at Coffee House, have been striving to subvert that dynamic. With much of our new programming, we seek to create opportunities for audiences to engage with the art we present, to use it as stepping stone, or tool, to make something new, to inspire. -- Walker Art Center Edward Hopper Painting Hosts Writers' Residency Critics have noted that Hopper's paintings are open to interpretation. Authors Hunt and Bernheimer are ready to give their take on the story presented here. -- City Pages

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Kate Bernheimer has been called one of the living masters of the fairy tale. She is the author of a novel trilogy and the story collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales (forthcoming from Coffee House Press in August 2014) and the editor of four anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning and best-selling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths. She founded and edits the literary journal Fairy Tale Review. Laird Hunt is the award-winning author of six books, including a short story collection and five novels from Coffee House Press: The Impossibly, Indiana, Indiana, The Exquisite, Ray of the Star, and Kind One, which was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award and winner of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver's Creative Writing Program, he is editor of the Denver Quarterly.

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