Carmen Machado appears in the following:
'The Book Of Joan' Is A Dizzying, Dystopian Genre Mashup
Thursday, April 20, 2017
'The Pickle Index' Is A Tart, Tangy Multi-Platform Romp
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
The Pickle Index app — one way to experience Eli Horowitz's newest novel and multimedia project — opens with what looks like an ad for an Apple product. Millennials gather to feast together in a stylishly decorated home, laughing and communing silently behind a veneer of electric pop. They lay ...
'Daydreams Of Angels' Tells Stories Within Stories
Thursday, October 08, 2015
In the opening story of Heather O'Neill's debut collection Daydreams of Angels, "The Gypsy and the Bear," a young boy starts to tell a story about a character he calls "The Gypsy" and his trained companion bear. But in the middle of his tale, the child is called away and ...
Dense, Fantastical 'Prodigies' Rewards The Patient Reader
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
In Angélica Gorodischer's Prodigies, a home formerly occupied by the Romantic poet Novalis becomes a boarding house, in a small German town in the 19th century. At the helm of the residence is Madame Helena, who as a young bride left her unsatisfying husband and moved back to her childhood ...
A Former Wunderkind Drifts On In 'Some Other Town'
Monday, February 23, 2015
Five years before the opening of Elizabeth Collison's debut novel Some Other Town, Margaret Lydia Benning comes to a small, unnamed Midwestern town to study art. She has talent in spades: grim visions that manifest in surreal paintings — "A woman in pink diaphanous tulle, wild boars where her legs ...