Samuel Rutter
Samuel Rutter is a writer from Melbourne Australia. His work has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, The New York Times, Forever Magazine, and others. He is the international literature editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
In this original story, Samuel Rutter envisions an afternoon with fictional lepidopterist Matt Damon. The dreams themselves are having dreams in a way that reminds me of Sebald or the Saragossa Manuscript. Even when seated, the narrator engenders a dizziness in the reader. Once standing, dizziness gives way to benign vertigo—a pleasant spin around a butterfly house. Rutter has the rare ability to maintain a sense of bonhomie and comfort while the narrator's thoughts flit and spiral.