Hotel Art: Stories

By: Stallings, Tyler

A quirkily humorous, erotic, tender, tumultuous and at times surreal debut collection of ten stories set in hotels and roadside motels across America and the border, tracing moments of uncertainty and precipitous change. Photographs by Naida Osline inspire and propel the action.

In this author-artist collaboration, Tyler Stallings explores themes of heartbreak, defiance, love, and escape. A hotel housekeeper surreptitiously replaces mass-produced art with her late sister's vibrant watercolors. A disgraced curator returns to his hometown to confront the city's historical role in the slave trade. An unlikely love triangle takes shape as a young skater drifts into the orbit of two aging lovers. Memories and internal conflicts haunt a wildfire-fighter as his career falters, and in a bar in Chapala, Mexico, a retired American high school English teacher compiles an improvised dictionary of the word gringo, recording absurd and painful fragments of expatriate life. Across ten linked stories, lives shift and reset in hotels and roadside motels--transitional spaces where unspoken and unseen aspects of American life come briefly into view.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1954600518
• ISBN13: 9781954600515
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Doppelhouse Press
• Length: 200 Pages