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 Antoni, Robert. My Mother's Erotic Folktales. (Grove Press, 2001) Antoni's collection consists of lusty, lively, interlocking stories set in the Bahamas during World War II, as recounted by a ninety-six-year-old woman to her grandson. The author veers between realism, magical realism, fantasy, fable, and historical fiction. (Terri Windling) Barry, Lynda. A Hundred! Demons!!! (Sasquatch Books, Seattle, WA, 2002) Is it a comic? A novel? A memoir? It moves you with the power of all three genres, creating something greater than any one of them. Barry calls it "Autobifictionalography" which is pretty accurate. (Ellen Kushner) Bernheimer, Kate. The Complete Tales of Kezia Gold. (FC2, 2002) Bernheimer's innovative novel uses a fractured, prismatic structure and themes drawn from fairy tales and Jewish folklore to illuminate what could be called a postmodern coming-of-age story. It's moving, memorable, and unique. (Terri Windling) Bishop, Michael. At the City Limits of Fate. (Edgewood Press, 1996) Bishop pays absolutely no attention to genre borders in this small press collection of fifteen sterling stories, largely set in the American south. "Among the Handlers," about snake—handling religions, is worth the cover price alone. (Terri Windling) Blaylock, James P. Thirteen Phantasms. (Ace, 2003) This edition collects the short fiction of a marvelous American writer whose work falls somewhere on the continuum between domestic realism, contemporary fantasy (of the Ray Bradbury sort), supernatural horror, and western regional fiction. (Terri Windling) Bowes, Richard. Minions of the Moon. (Tor, 2000) Drugs, rent boys, dopplegangers, thugs,and a magic carousel in the mean streets of 80's New York City. A work of urban gay magical realism with elements of the thriller and the memoir. Beautifully written, very gritty, very exciting, very moving. (Delia Sherman) Brockmeier, Kevin. Things That Fall From the Sky. (Vintage, 2003) A lovely strange mixture between the domestic short story, a moment of magic realism as a large rectangle presses down on the earth like a closing door, and a calm sort of Ray Bradbury midwest voice as the inevitable approaches. (Midori Snyder) Budnitz, Judy. If I Told You Once. (Picador, 1999) Budnitz's engrossing novel follows four generations of women from eastern Europe to the United States. It's a wonderful American family saga, travelling the borderlands between mainstream fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, fable, and fantasy. (Terri Windling) Butler, Robert Olen. Tabloid Dreams. (Holt, 1997) Butler (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) fashioned the stories of this collection around real headlines from tabloid newspapers, such as "Help Me Find My Spaceman Lover" and "Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed". The stories move easily through many different genres, and range from completely hilarious tales to deeply affecting ones. (Terri Windling) Carson, Anne. The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse. (Vintage, 1998) Some novels in verse are more interstitial than others. The mythological winged red monster Geryon is also a young gay boy growing up in 1960s Canada. Carson understands her characters like a novelist and understands how to philosophize in the real world like a poet.The novel ends near a volcano in Peru, which is just about right. (Patrick O'Connor) |
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