{"product_id":"regarding-ingres-darin-strauss-9780789346407","title":"Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eTalented emerging fiction writers find inspiration in one of the most famous paintings in New York's Frick Collection: Jean-August-Dominique Ingres's \u003ci\u003eComtesse d'Haussonville\u003c\/i\u003e from 1845.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the successful literary musings on art at the Frick, \u003ci\u003eThe Sleeve Should Be Illegal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCocktails with a Curator\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGathered 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darin Strauss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0789346400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780789346407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rizzoli International Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 7.75w x 0.97d","brand":"Darin Strauss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241946624255,"sku":"9780789346407","price":17.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85225278-5ace-4d81-83fd-f9dce2bc4086.jpg?v=1772656710","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/regarding-ingres-darin-strauss-9780789346407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}