Flavorwire recommends
Tags: Joy Williams, Karen Joy Fowler, Karin Tidbeck, Nathan Ballingrud, Yoon Ha LeeNice reading list posted yesterday on Flavorwire included a few books you might know or want to know:
Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee
“Science fiction and fabulist stories with mathy, orchestral, universal tones, written in gorgeous prose.”
Jagganath by Karin Tidbeck
“Strange, haunting goodness from Sweden, with an emphasis on unbelonging. A captivating read.”
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler
“A stunning collection that mixes history, fantasy, myth, and something else altogether unknowable. Witty and powerful and totally out there.”
North American Lake Monsters: Stories by Nathan Ballingrud
“Love stories/monster stories.”
The Changeling by Joy Williams
“As Rick Moody says in its introduction: “The Changeling, which is rich with the arresting improbabilities of magic realism, with the surrealism of the folkloric revival (Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber was published about the same time), and with the modernist foreboding of Under the Volcano, would have seemed perfectly legible in 1973 when Gravity’s Rainbow was published, or Gaddis’s J.R. But the late seventies, with their punk rock nihilism and their Studio 54 fatuousness, were perhaps not properly situated to understand this variety of Joy Williams challenge. To their shame.” We’re over all that fatuousness now, though.”
Ad many more including: Amelia Gray, Kelly Link, Aimee Bender, Matt Bell, Laura Van den Berg, Karen Russell, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nalo Hopkinson.
NEW FTR, Joy Williams coming!
Tags: Fairy Tale Review, Joy WilliamsHey, it’s the last few days of the month and the big question around here is will Ginn Hale still rule the roost on the Bestseller chart? Hmm! It’s going to be a big autumn here—how do we know? Because ebook readers keep selling and we have great ebooks!—and we’re already working on 2011: The Year of Ginn Hale. Michael is making great things happen behind the scenes which means we will be adding a few more presses either in October or November.
Today we released the latest issue—The Red Issue—of the Fairy Tale Review, and as with the other issues it’s available at the amazing price of $2.99! If you’re not sure, download the first issue free. Contributors to The Red Issue include Jennifer Calkins, Rikki Ducornet, Noy Holland, Daniel Pafunda, Maria Tatar, Kellie Wells, and Matthew Zapruder.
Also, the editor of the Fairy Tale Review, Kate Bernheimer, along with Maria Tatar, Kelly Link, and Kathryn Davis, will be on a panel at the Boston Book Festival on October 16th. Maybe see you there.
And, we have huge news for fans of Joy Williams: Fairy Tale Review Press just negotiated the ebook rights to her novel The Changeling which we will release next month. It is, apparently, one of the most original and alarming fairy-tale books ever written and includes a foreword by Rick Moody. This should be huge and anyone who helps spread the word will be greatly appreciated!