Lucy Jayne Wright’s fascination with what distant worlds and technology can tell us about what is to be human now results in a kind of magical and science fiction realism dealing with themes of environmentalism, compassion, generational and family stories, and occasionally sex farce. She usually has at least one book in her purse, especially at parties.
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Modelland a Decade Later
Warning for minor discussion of self-harm. “Goodness great-shoes!” (p 3) Where do I even start? This review is going to be incoherent because there’s no coherent way to describe this book. I read Tyra Banks’ Modelland back in 2011, when it came out, and it was so goddamn weird that it stuck with me. A Read more
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Only Cowards Use Pen Names
One of my mentors once told me “Only cowards use pen names.” So, where does that leave me? It took me a long time to decide to use a pen name. I wanted to use my real name–or I tried to want to–but every time I pictured a book with my name on it, face Read more
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