Nifty cover design for the new book, Pretty Monsters: Stories
Kelly Link writes exciting and strange stories that chop up stupid genre demarcations (Young Adult, Horror, Slipstream) and smoosh them into a refreshing balm of awesomeness. While her writing is slightly outside of what I usually post about on Same Hat, I can't recommend it highly enough-- I think some of you guys would really, really dig it (if you aren't already fan). She makes a lot of her work available online via Creative Commons, and I strongly recommend starting out with either he new story The Wrong Grave [excerpt] or Monster [audio]. More free stories (text and audio) can be found on LCRW, home of Small Beer Press, the press run by Kelly and her partner, editor/writer Gavin Grant.
Interior illustration by Shaun Tan for Kelly's Link's story "The Constable of Abal"
I was already psyched to read this book, but now that I hear we get the added bonus of super-draftsman Shaun Tan's illustrations, I wanna stare at it too. Check this out in bookstores in October.
3 comments:
Awesome! She's one of my favorite writers, but I didn't realize she had a new book coming out or that she posted free stories online. I have something new to read today :)
Kelly Link gave a guest lecture at one of my college classes actually. Gotta love Western Mass.
I find a lot of slipstream/new fabulist or whatever writers a little bit too politically correct granola slash fanfic yuppie type, but she does some good stuff...Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a good read.
@jogs6000: Yeah, I actually printed out a story last week (in big font) and read it while running on a treadmill. I don't usually exercise, as evidence by this retarded idea, but it actually made the jog less painful. I have a feeling this new book is going to be fantastic!
@anonymous: Kelly does great readings and she's extremely nice in person too. I dig LCRW too, and not just because my girlfriend had a story published there.
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