![]() ![]() ![]() Her debut collection reflects this best-of-both-worlds synthesis, combining the daring, high-wire prose of a stylist with the satisfying pulpiness of a horror writer. Machado is a graduate of both the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Workshop, two premier institutions in the realist and speculative writing traditions. That’s a fitting liminality for a collection preoccupied with things and forces that powerfully exist, but in another sense, don’t-a set of stories that masterfully refit domestic horror and its predecessor, the Gothic, for an age fraught with unreality. As recognition goes, it’s entirely deserved and just a little eerie, since the collection isn’t actually published until October 3. Last Friday, Carmen Maria Machado’s astonishing short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was long-listed for the 2017 National Book Award. ![]()
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