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From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genealogies for weird fiction in the age of extinction.
This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris Lessin... See more
This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris Lessin... See more
Elvia Wilk • Death by Landscape
Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“In the summer of 2008, when I was working as a beleaguered junior editor at a news magazine, I used to distract myself by visiting the Strand Bookstore, near Union Square in Manhattan, and rescuing one yellowing, waterlogged book from the dollar carts outside. There was a bizarre urgency to these missions for me—I kept imagining the fate of the bo
... See moreSTILL, they dreamed.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
garrulous
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.