ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Carmen Maria Machado
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Her Body and Other Parties
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
LISTEN HERE:
In this episode, Adriana proves how big her brain is by easily besting Todd in a literary genre battle, Crystal reveals which story “elicited the most emotional reaction,” and Anita shouts out Todd’s mom. Also, Carmen Maria Machado gives us an excuse to fan-folk LAW AND ORDER. All the while, we sip delicious drinks and listen to the same dulcet tunes we used to hear at Lake Cofee House. Wait – have we entered some sort of time-shift? Abler, is that you? Henson? Bonita?!!!??!!
RESOURCE LIST:
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (tv show)
- Mindhunter (tv show)
WHAT ELSE THE SPOILERS ARE READING:
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene A. Carruthers
