Alice Knott is a 2020 novel by American author Blake Butler.
[3] Butler's earliest inspiration for the book was a note written to himself reading “Corporation that buys and destroys art”.
[4] In The New York Times, Lauren Wilkinson wrote “There’s an exceptional amount of intention and control on display in the telling of this story.
Alice Knott is a meditation on art and perception whose form seems to serve as both a meta-comment on the function of the novel, and a challenge to the expectations that a reader should bring to one.
And even more to the point, I respected it for insisting that I rise to its challenge.”[1] In Los Angeles Review of Books, John Domini wrote that the "constant worrying at what’s genuinely personal, struggling to detach it from the endless play of light across wall and screen, strikes me as an undeniably contemporary project.”[2] This article about a 2020s novel is a stub.