“Here, in the end, we realize the extent of the narrator’s dark obsession.” In part II of her essay on strange objects in fiction, Elizabeth Mayer offers a close reading of Yoko Ogawa’s “Sewing for the Heart.”
“She is in love with the deer foot lamp—so be it!” In the first installment of this two-part essay on strange objects in fiction, Elizabeth Mayer goes in-depth with Joy Williams’s “Congress.”
“One of the things I also wanted to happen over the course of the collection was to unsettle people enough that even when they were reading realism, they didn’t know that they were reading realism”: Kristen Roupenian talks with Michelle Cheever about genre, empathy, and more.
