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Karen Michalson

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Literary Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Magical Realism, Literary Fantas

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Karen Michalson has taught nineteenth-century British literature and practiced criminal law. Defending the canon, defending the accused. You say there's a difference?

She’s also written four novels, most recently The Maenad’s God, which was selected by Independent Book Review as one of the best novels of 2022. Her earlier novels: Enemy Glory, Hecate's Glory, and The King's Glory; form the Enemy Glory trilogy. Enemy Glory was one of the books that received the most votes for the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and was chosen for Locus‘s Recommended Reading List of Best First Novels.

Her first book, Victorian Fantasy Literature: Literary Battles with Church and Empire, examines the non-literary and non-aesthetic reasons underlying the bias in ...more

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If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Karen Michalson You mean as opposed to the forced march we’re all on through Consensus Reality? Which is possibly the most grotesquely designed fictional world since …moreYou mean as opposed to the forced march we’re all on through Consensus Reality? Which is possibly the most grotesquely designed fictional world since somebody in Mesopotamia got bored scratching business transactions into clay tablets, felt the breath of divinity, and discovered that fictional worlds are a thing.

I’d travel to the Fiesole of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron. I remember the first time I read the Decameron and how beguiled I was by the frame, by the young men and women telling stories to each other in Fiesole while Florence writhed with plague. What could be more intimate than telling stories while escaping death? Telling stories to your friends, about your friends, with your friends, making alternate imaginative lives for escaping a reality that’s become another kind of death? This is sacred stuff. Survival stuff. We lost some of our humanity when we ceded the cultural spaces in which such stories and intimacies happen.

I wrote about that cultural loss here: https://karenmichalson.com/why-we-rea...
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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Karen Michalson Through the magic of disbelief. I pretend it doesn’t exist and act accordingly.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 129 ratings · 21 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Enemy Glory (Enemy Glory #1) 3.39 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hecate's Glory (Enemy Glory #2) 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maenad's God really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King's Glory (Enemy Glory #3) 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Enemy Glory Trilogy: The Complete Set it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victorian Fantasy Literature: Literary Battles With Church and Empire 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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