The Spooky Season: Alison Rumfitt’s second novel examines repression and abjection through the lens of extreme body horror
Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
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Brainwyrms is all about the horrors of transphobia
Shibli's novel is not without controversy itself.
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
"I was entrusted and now I owe something back."
Klein's sprawling, anxious, scattershot approach to her material offers an objective correlative of what she claims was her mental state leading up to the writing of the book.
Bringing these stories together in one place highlights the genre contributions of Black writers.
"My next task is to figure out how to do audiobooks."
Other considerations aside, this represents one of the strongest Giller shortlists in years.
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
"Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism."