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![]() ![]() My favorite sitcom, A Different World, attempts to reflect our reality too closely while existing in a fantastically rewarding context. I had to be at least decently familiar, which throws out Super Mario or Star Wars, where my awareness freezes out in the early 1990s. I set out personal reasons for which worlds we explore in Us Living in Fictional Cosmogonies. “Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative,” only leaves you with variegated audiences who do not necessarily appreciate implication or the use of, “psycho,” much less the demonization of the mentally ill and so on and so on and so forth. ![]() We all know the unease of having to explain a favored world, a sitcom or movie wherein the characters or the seeming moral causality of the world are disagreeable, contrary at least to our public ethics. We all have our comfort worlds, fictional realms we can revisit, be they from television, prose, comics, on albums or in folktales. We are all familiar with the suspicion we know more about a fictional world than we do our own. ![]() Introduction: The Munsters and the Addams By Travis Hedge Coke on NovemPatricia Highmash ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of these stories take place in worlds much like ours, but their psychological realism is punctured by the fantastic, supernatural, and apocalyptic. ![]() “The Resident,” an eerie tale of a writer’s experience at a residency gone wrong, tackles the problem of the “ madwoman in the attic,” and how some tropes limit our ability to write about mental illness and women’s emotional lives. In “The Husband Stitch,” a folktale about a girl whose head is held on by a ribbon (famously collected in Alvin Schwartz’s In a Dark, Dark Room) becomes the basis for a story about misogyny, sexuality, and the values embedded in the stories we tell. The genre-bending stories collected in Her Body and Other Parties weave fables, urban legends, gothic literature, and popular culture to create moving narratives about female selfhood. These are only a few of the wonders contained in the pages of Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado’s electrifying debut. A phantasmagoric reimagining of one of television’s most popular shows. An inventory of lovers, written as the world falls apart. ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria MachadoĪ mysterious green ribbon around a woman’s neck. ![]() ![]() ![]() World Book Day - deportment lessons at Saint Helen and Saint Katharine School March: ‘Our school dinners are the best school dinners.’ (They tell you this at every school.) ![]() This is the moment when you have to tie down every single unresolved thing and explain away all the weird continuity errors. Three weeks to do copyedits for Moonlocket. For this draft it feels as if I must plait the plot, characters, and emotions as closely as possible, so everything in the story is bound tightly together.įebruary: Someone's left the cake out in the rain! I get more edits back and try to finish the fourth draft of Moonlocket, finessing the larger details. Just before Christmas, I hand in the third draft of Moonlocket. Jo tells the people walking by, “He wrote this book!" ![]() I go with my agent Jo and we take some pictures of a few in London. Another great surprise in December is seeing Cogheart posters on stations' billboards, thanks to Alesha and the marketing department of Usborne. ![]() |