The best of Lady Churchill's rosebud wristlet : [unexpected tales of the fantastic & othter odd musings

unexpected Tales Of The Fantastic, & Other Odd Musings By Nalo Hopkinson Karen Joy Fowler Karen Russell Jeffrey Ford Among Many Others contains Stories By The Amazing Jeffrey Ford, The Fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, The Unlikely Kelly Link, The Thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, The Shockingly Good Karen Russell, The Unnerving James Sallis, And Dozens Of Uncanny Others, As Well As Useful Lists Of Many Kinds And Straight-shooting Advice From Aunt Gwenda. edited By Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant introduction By Dan Chaon publishers Weekly genre-blurring Stories, Poems And Articles By A Few Major Authors And A Host Of Relative Unknowns Appear In This Oddly Compelling Excursion Into The Realm Of The Surreal And Interstitial. The Standouts Are A Diverse Lot: Nalo Hopkinson's Exquisitely Visceral Folkloric Allegory Tan-tan And Dry Bone, Sarah Monette's Darkly Romantic Three Letters From The Queen Of Elfland, The Hilarious Illustrations Of Sara Rojo And Narration Of Lawrence Schimel In The Well-dressed Wolf, Richard Butner's Appropriately Dry How To Make A Martini. Link And Grant Also Unabashedly Include Surprisingly Subpar Examples Of Their Own Work. With A Major Sf Imprint Publishing This Hefty Anthology, lcrw 's Times As A Low-profile Fringe Zine May Be At An End, Though It Remains To Be Seen Whether Mainstream Readers Will Be Convinced To Swell The Ranks Of Its Relatively Few But Utterly Devoted Subscribers. (aug.) copyright 2007 Reed Business Information Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, the shockingly good Karen Russell, the unnerving James Sallis, and dozens of uncanny others, as well as useful lists of many kinds and straight-shooting advice from Aunt Gwenda. Edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant Introduction by Dan ChaonContents include:“Travels with the Snow Queen” by Kelly Link “Scotch: An Essay into a Drink” by Gavin J. Grant “Unrecognizable” by David Findlay “Mehitobel Was Queen of the Night” by Ian McDowell “Tan-Tan and Dry Bone” by Nalo Hopkinson “An Open Letter Concerning Sponsorship” by Margaret Muirhead “I Am Glad” by Margaret Muirhead “Lady Shonagon's Hateful Things” by Margaret Muirhead “Heartland” by Karen Joy Fowler “What a Difference a Night Makes” “Pretending” by Ray Vukcevich “The Film Column: Don't Look Now” by William Smith “A Is for Apple: An Easy Reader” by Amy Beth Forbes “My Father's Ghost” by Mark Rudolph “What's Sure to Come” by Jeffrey Ford “Stoddy Awchaw” by Geoffrey H. Goodwin “The Rapid Advance of Sorrow” by Theodora Goss “The Wolf's Story” by Nan Fry “Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland” by Sarah Monette “Tacoma-Fuji” by David Moles “Bay” by David Erik Nelson “How to Make a Martini” by Richard Butner “Happier Days” by Jan Lars Jensen “The Fishie” by Philip Raines and Harvey Welles “Dear Aunt Gwenda, Vol. 2” by Gwenda Bond “The Film Column: Greaser's Palace” by William Smith “The Ichthyomancer Writes His Friend with an Account of the Yeti's Birthday Party” by David J. Schwartz “Serpents” by Vernoica Schanoes “Homeland Security” by Gavin J. Grant “For George Romero” by David Blair “Vincent Price” by David Blair “Music Lessons” by Douglas Lain “Two Stories” by James Sallis “Help Wanted” by Karen Russell “'Eft'or ‘Epic'” by Sarah Micklem “The Red Phone” by John Kessel “The Well-Dressed Wolf: A Comic” by Lawrence Shimel and Sara Rojo “The Mushroom Duchess” by Deborah Roggie “The Pirate's True Love” by Seana Graham “You Could Do This Too” “The Posthumous Voyages of Christopher Columbus” by Sunshine Ison Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson Karen Joy Fowler Karen Russell Jeffrey Ford among many others Contains STORIES by the AMAZING Jeffrey Ford, the FABULOUS Karen Joy Fowler, the UNLIKELY Kelly Link, the THRILLING Nalo Hopkinson, the SHOCKINGLY GOOD Karen Russell, the UNNERVING James Sallis, and dozens of UNCANNY others, as well as USEFUL lists of many kinds and STRAIGHT-SHOOTING advice from Aunt Gwenda. Edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant Introduction by Dan Chaon Stories, poems and essays, including a movie review of Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Don't Look Now