Carmen Maria Machado

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

A Memoir

In the Dream House

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell 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. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. 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.

Stories

Her Body and Other Parties

From New York Times bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body And Other Parties, In The Dream House) comes a story so horrifying you won't dare to forget! When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search for answers to the questions everyone else forgot.Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, is plagued by a mysterious illness that eats away at the memories of those affected by it. El and Octavia are two best friends who find themselves the newest victims of this disease after waking up in a movie theater with no memory of the past few hours. As El and Vee dive deeper into the mystery behind their lost memories, they realize the stories of their town hold more dark truth than they could've imagined. It's up to El and Vee to keep their town from falling apart...to keep the world safe from Shudder-to-Think's monsters.Collects issues # 1-6.

The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics)

Bruce Owens Grimm

Zefyr Lisowski

Joe Vallese

Richard Scott Larson

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.

Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet—spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world.

"It Came from the Closet" features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on "Jennifer’s Body", Jude Ellison S. Doyle on "In My Skin", Addie Tsai on "Dead Ringers", and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

Queer Reflections on Horror

It Came from the Closet

Naomi Novik

Indrapramit Das

Rebecca Roanhorse

Amal El-Mohtar

John Chu

Sarah Gailey

Carlos Hernandez

Leah Cypess

Alyssa Wong

J.Y. Yang

Jeffrey Ford

T. Kingfisher

Kat Howard

Stephen Graham Jones

Seanan McGuire

Ann Leckie

Arkady Martine

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers. Madeleine L’Engle once said, “When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.” The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations. Featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed writers such as Seanan McGuire, Naomi Novik, Rebecca Roanhorse, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, Indrapramit Das, Carlos Hernandez, Sarah Gailey, Ann Leckie, John Chu, Urusla Vernon, Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, Arkady Martine, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, and more, The Mythic Dream is sure to become a new classic.

The Mythic Dream

The Husband Stitch

Bloody Summer

Ocho cuentos perturbadores que giran alrededor de lo femenino, el cuerpo y la sexualidad. Un debut arrollador. Una mujer se niega a permitir que su marido le quite una misteriosa cinta verde que lleva alrededor del cuello; otra mujer relata sus encuentros sexuales mientras una letal plaga se extiende por el planeta; una intervención quirúrgica para perder peso tiene unos resultados siniestros; un par de detectives investigan varios crímenes acompañados por los fantasmas de las chicas asesinadas; una mujer es capaz de oír los pensamientos de los actores de las películas porno... Los ocho cuentos que componen este libro exploran el universo femenino mezclando sin complejos terror, realismo mágico, erotismo, ciencia ficción y comedia. Aquí la sexualidad confluye con lo siniestro, el deseo se torna perturbador, el humor deriva hacia lo grotesco y el cuerpo y la carnalidad se convierten en el sugestivo e inquietante centro de la creación literaria.

Su cuerpo y otras fiestas

Nella casa dei tuoi sogni

Jane Smiley

Jenny Zhang

Kate Bolick

On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Little Women--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on each particular sister's story and what it has to teach us. Bolick writes about how the depiction of Meg as the "ideal woman" reveals Alcott's dim views of marriage and planted seeds in Bolick's own young mind. Zhang, unlike many readers, considered Jo her least favorite sister as a girl, and writes about how Jo eventually won her heart. Machado brings her SF and horror sensibilities to a unique perspective on Beth, "dead & pure girl extraordinaire"; and Smiley, who considers Amy the most captivating sister, writes about Amy's evolution into the responsibilities of adulthood from the perspective of Smiley's own experience of motherhood. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.

A Library of America Special Publication

March Sisters: on Life, Death, and Little Women

Ao expor a história de seu relacionamento com uma mulher encantadora, mas também volátil e abusiva, Carmen Maria Machado traça um arco narrativo que vai desde o início cheio de promessas até o final difícil e confuso, que deixa marcas impossíveis de ignorar. Carmen se apaixonou por uma mulher que parecia maravilhosa — elas fazem sexo, viajam juntas, conhecem as respectivas famílias —, mas que acaba se tornando opressiva e aterrorizante, apesar de ainda sedutora. Embora seja difícil resistir ao charme da companheira, a autora cada vez mais se dá conta de que os limites autoimpostos — aquelas balizas que fazem dela a pessoa que quer ser — estão sendo ignorados. A casa dos sonhos deveria ser um lugar de felicidade e acolhimento, mas como é possível entender a transformação dela em assombro e violência? Em vez de traçar seu passado de forma linear, Carmen Maria Machado o fragmenta para alcançar o maior efeito possível na pessoa que lê, criando um mergulho emocional ao mesmo tempo angustiante e belo. Neste livro de memórias ousado e brutal, Machado examina um relacionamento abusivo através de sua percepção pessoal, mas também por um viés cultural e sociológico. Ao registrar sua experiência de sexualidade queer e violência psicológica íntima, a autora chama ao palco personagens largamente marginalizados e esquecidos pela história que, invisíveis na narrativa coletiva, encontram ainda mais dificuldade para entender o significado de seus próprios sentimentos. "Já que existem tão poucos relatos literários sobre relacionamentos abusivos entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, Machado forja uma nova maneira de contar sua história." — The Guardian "Inovador a ponto de tirar o fôlego." — The New Yorker

Na casa dos sonhos

Hannu Rajaniemi

Usman T. Malik

Sofia Samatar

Maria Dahvana Headley

Brooke Bolander

Eugene Fisher

Ben Loory

Adam Ehrlich Sachs

Talented, diverse, and bold - the new voices of fantasy are breaking all of the rules.

The New Voices of Fantasy

The Low, Low Woods #1

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope―the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman―through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

En La Casa de Los Suenos

A wide-ranging anthology of essays exploring one of the most vital art forms on the planet today From the earliest computers to the smartphones in our pockets, video games have been on our screens and part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits celebrates this sophisticated medium and considers its lasting impact on our culture and ourselves. This collection of stylish, passionate, and searching essays opens with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, who edited the anthology alongside J. Robert Lennon. In these pages, writer-gamers find solace from illness and grief, test ideas about language, bodies, power, race, and technology, and see their experiences and identities reflected in—or complicated by—the interactive virtual worlds they inhabit. Elissa Washuta immerses herself in The Last of Us during the first summer of the pandemic. Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah describes his last goodbye to his father with the help of Disco Elysium. Jamil Jan Kochai remembers being an Afghan American teenager killing Afghan insurgents in Call of Duty. Also included are a comic by MariNaomi about her time as a video game producer; a deep dive into “portal fantasy” movies about video games by Charlie Jane Anders; and new work by Alexander Chee, Hanif Abdurraqib, Larissa Pham, and many more.

Writers Playing Video Games

Critical Hits

Uma poderosa coletânea de contos da autora finalista do National Book Award Uma esposa se recusa a remover a fita verde de seu pescoço mesmo após súplicas de seu marido. Uma mulher relata seus encontros sexuais lentamente, como uma praga que consome a humanidade. Uma vendedora descobre algo terrível dentro das costuras dos vestidos de festa de uma loja. Uma cirurgia de redução de peso resulta em um hospedeiro indesejado. Ao mesmo tempo antiquado e sexy, estranho e mordaz, cômico e extremamente sério, O corpo dela e outras farras alterna uma violência brutal e o sentimento mais rebuscado. Em sua originalidade explosiva, essas histórias extrapolam as possibilidades da ficção contemporânea. Carmen Maria Machado derruba as fronteiras arbitrárias entre realismo, ficção científica, comédia, horror, fantasia e fábula. Nesta coletânea de contos provocativa, considerada um Black Mirror feminista, gêneros literários são desafiados em narrativas que mapeiam a realidade das vidas das mulheres e a violência a que são submetidos seus corpos.

O corpo dela e outras farras

John Joseph Adams

The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2018, guest-edited by National Book Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado. Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about spaceships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever--to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado,The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019

Ao expor a história de seu relacionamento com uma mulher encantadora, mas também volátil e abusiva, Carmen Maria Machado traça um arco narrativo que vai desde o início cheio de promessas até o final difícil e confuso, que deixa marcas impossíveis de ignorar. Carmen se apaixonou por uma mulher que parecia maravilhosa — elas fazem sexo, viajam juntas, conhecem as respectivas famílias —, mas que acaba se tornando opressiva e aterrorizante, apesar de ainda sedutora. Embora seja difícil resistir ao charme da companheira, a autora cada vez mais se dá conta de que os limites autoimpostos — aquelas balizas que fazem dela a pessoa que quer ser — estão sendo ignorados. A casa dos sonhos deveria ser um lugar de felicidade e acolhimento, mas como é possível entender a transformação dela em assombro e violência? Em vez de traçar seu passado de forma linear, Carmen Maria Machado o fragmenta para alcançar o maior efeito possível na pessoa que lê, criando um mergulho emocional ao mesmo tempo angustiante e belo. Neste livro de memórias ousado e brutal, Machado examina um relacionamento abusivo através de sua percepção pessoal, mas também por um viés cultural e sociológico. Ao registrar sua experiência de sexualidade queer e violência psicológica íntima, a autora chama ao palco personagens largamente marginalizados e esquecidos pela história que, invisíveis na narrativa coletiva, encontram ainda mais dificuldade para entender o significado de seus próprios sentimentos. “Já que existem tão poucos relatos literários sobre relacionamentos abusivos entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, Machado forja uma nova maneira de contar sua história.” — The Guardian “Inovador a ponto de tirar o fôlego.” — The New Yorker

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Ken Liu

Yoon Ha Lee

Elizabeth Bear

Sam J. Miller

Max Gladstone

Scott Lynch

Kai Ashante Wilson

Annie Bellet

Ruthanna Emrys

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Rachel Swirsky

Xia Jia

Tom Crosshill

Rachael K. Jones

Eugie Foster

The Long List Anthology: More Stories from the Hugo Awards Nomination List (The Long List Anthology Series) (Volume 1)

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