The Color Master by Aimee Bender, $12.33, Amazon. sometimes third. The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. They’re the weirdest and most wonderful modern fables.
Bender’s prose is glorious, musical, and colloquial, an anthology of the bizarre. Any one could be a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie before both gentlemen jumped their sharks. Visit Aimee Bender's website Flammableskirt.com i think to be honest i like them better spaced out.
Stories August 24, 2013 • Aimee Bender's new story collection, The Color Master, is full of fractured fairy tales that flavor everyday lives and neuroses with a liberal dash of magic. I loved this collection, I love Aimee Bender. The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.
I tell no one. That’s how I feel about Aimee Bender and her short stories. Interview with authors, list of recommended short stories, and conversations about the form of the short story. Aimee Bender’s short story, “Off,” begins with the line, “At the party I make a goal and it is to kiss three men: one with black hair, one with red hair, the third blonde.” It’s a familiar fairy tale premise made caustic, and from that starting pistol of an opener, Bender races through the story with every scene colored by our narrator’s wry and cynical voice. –The Village Voice Literary Supplement The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. He bugged the girls; he had a few friends whose parents were drug addicts; he was the greatest at parties—he'd take any dare.
In my view, Aimee Bender's fiction is more important as a sign of a shift in sensibility among current writers than a significant aesthetic achievement advancing the cause of innovative fiction. Some of these stories are funny, some creepy, some heart-piercing, and some downright terrifying. That year, I began writing my own stories that broke the rules.
From the first line of each tale she lets us know she is telling a story, but the moral is never quite what we expect. They’re the weirdest and most wonderful modern fables. Aimee - you are the story master, please never stop writing.
If stepping into an Aimee Bender story is like entering a dream, then reading a book of her short stories is the equivalent of slipping into an alternate universe. That’s how I feel about Aimee Bender and her short stories.
Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full not like she's got a gun to my head. Aimee Bender / 40 MY SISTER GOT th e job.
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The Color Master : NPR Aimee Bender’s stories lean to the surreal. This story is intended for personal or educational use only and is made available as a part of the textBOX anthology of exceptional fiction, ... Aimee Bender’s “The Rememberer” probes the concept of devolution in a fresh and vital way. Publishing Date : August 17th 1999 Genre : Short Stories Author : Aimee Bender Paperback : 192 pages Story : Bold, sexy, and daring, these stories portray a world twisted on its axis, an unconventional place that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. That said, I was a little nervous about reviewing Bender’s new collection of short stories.
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