";s:4:"text";s:3032:" Carmen Maria Machado is the best writer of cognitive dysphoria I’ve read in years. Lately, it’s her story about Junot Díaz that’s getting attention. In her arms is a baby: genderless, red, not making any sort of noise. Published November 2014 in Interfictions (Issue 4) (Warning: I’m going to be talking about the story … Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, Guernica, Tin House, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. In this collection Machado demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. CARMEN MARIA MACHADO’S short story “The Husband Stitch,” currently a finalist for the 2015 Nebula Award, begins simply enough: a woman tells … Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Electric Literature, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best Horror of the Year, and Year's Best Weird Fiction, and on NPR. There’s a contradiction inherent in the title of Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties.On one hand, the title refers to the empowerment of taking pleasure in one’s own body, that the body can and should be a cause for celebration for its owner. Carmen Maria Machado is the best writer of cognitive dysphoria I’ve read in years.
Mothers Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2017. She kisses the baby on the ear and then hands it to me. ← Three-A-Week (2.1): Carmen Maria Machado’s “Descent” Three-A-Week (2.3): Carmen Maria Machado’s “Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law and Order SVU” → Three-A-Week (2.2): Carmen Maria Machado’s “Mothers” Posted on May 17, 2015 by Joshua Johnson under Oddities. I flinch when she extends her arms, but take the infant just the same. Posted on 29/11/2018 29/11/2018 by Mike Finn “Mothers” is a story the reader has to work at. But in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, a collection of stories that straddle horror and fairy tale, that comfort is challenged — and sometimes withheld entirely.