Carmen Maria Machado : Her Body and Other Parties




Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers show

Summary: <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.davidnaimon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-5.34.38-PM.png"></a>“Cross-pollinating fairy tales, horror movies, TV shows, &amp; a terrific sense of humor, Machado’s work reminds me at different times of such wildly divergent figures as David Lynch, Jane Campion, Maggie Nelson, &amp; Grace Paley; which is a way of saying, Machado sounds like nobody but herself.”—John Powers, NPR “Fresh Air”; “The book abounds with fantastical premises that ring true because the intensity of sexual desire, the mutability of the body, &amp; the realities of gender inequality make them so. These stories stand as exquisitely rendered, poignant hauntings.”—San Francisco Chronicle<br>