Allison Wyss
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| The Church of Divine Electricity is a speculative story collection that uses dark humor, science fiction, magic, and inventive forms to create worlds and characters that are dystopian, twisted, funny, warm, and also very much our own. The collection ...more | |
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| I had the honor of interviewing Maria Reva about her (absolutely stunning) novel ENDLING. We talked about about structural play, narrative power, and how the violence and uncertainty of today’s world must reflect in the upheaval of the novel. You can ...more | |
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I wrote about the stunning opening to this book and the way it unsettles, dazzles, and even decenters humanity: https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/c... ...more |
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| The Confines takes a grimly absurd look at marriage, reimagining love, attraction, and the social conventions that bind human beings. In stories set in India and the United States, eccentric characters struggle to express themselves—through binge eat ...more | |
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| These Worn Bodies is a collection of flash fiction that is wondrous in its form and its imagination. Bodies are deconstructed to discrete parts (boobs! orgasms!) or made of paper or popcorn. Flies are elevated to main characters. Agency is for everyo ...more | |
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| In WHEN WE WERE HARDCORE, the landscape of the American Southwest is vivid and terrifying, but the situations are starkly in-between: houseboats and seaplanes, a college road-trip with a permanent detour, seasonal ski workers, a teacher hoping for a ...more | |
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I got interview the author about this incredible book and some of the tools she used to make climate science relatable, human, and urgent. (We also talked about farts.) https://bit.ly/3Ajx7dd ...more |
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I wrote about the stunning opening to this book and the way it unsettles, dazzles, and even decenters humanity: https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/c... ...more |
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I got interview the author about this incredible book and some of the tools she used to make climate science relatable, human, and urgent. (We also talked about farts.) https://bit.ly/3Ajx7dd ...more |
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| Grey Dog is literary horror that’s subversive, queer, and contains the full blast of female rage. I had the honor of interviewing the writer, and we talked about crafting a slow-burn sense of terror, the form and function of literary and historical d ...more | |

























