Stories We Love: “The Resident,” by Carmen Maria Machado
by Nora Kipnis
“The horror of the residency is not that one can’t leave; it’s that one doesn’t have to”: Nora Kipnis on Carmen Maria Machado’s version of the cabin in the woods.
Nora Kipnis is a fiction writer and essayist from New York. Her work has appeared in The Southeast Review, DIAGRAM, Rivet, Al Jazeera, and other publications, and has been listed as notable in Best American Essays.
“The horror of the residency is not that one can’t leave; it’s that one doesn’t have to”: Nora Kipnis on Carmen Maria Machado’s version of the cabin in the woods.
