Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.
Known for her gorgeously supple prose that soars effortlessly over genre boundaries, Griffith is also an incisive essayist whose ground-breaking, data-driven work on gender bias in the literary ecosystem sparked self-searching conversations worldwide. In this heady mé lange of essays, poems, art, and stories— some seen here for the first time— the author makes foundational assertions about love versus ownership (“ Wife”), advocates for the writer as explorer (“ Branding: It Burns”), and points out the gaping hole in our literary landscape where we’ d expect to find disability fiction (“ Overwriting the Old Story”). These and other public-facing essays are followed by four powerfully intimate poems. Returning to prose, Griffith immerses us so seamlessly in her viscerally imagined fiction that we feel how it is to be hurled like light through the stars in “ Glimmer, ” hunted through the urban alleys of “ Cold Wind” during a holiday blizzard, swept along irresistible currents of “ Down the Path of the Sun, ” and, in “ Many Things in Dumnet, ” a novella published here for the first time, brought ashore as a stranger to land where something is very wrong.
Finally, “ Otherwise Unremarkable, ” series editor Nisi Shawl's interview with the author, teases out sometimes startling and always satisfying answers to questions on power, activism, immigration, cognitive poetics, and art.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
NONFICTION
A Writer’ s Manifesto
Overwriting the Old Story
Branding: It Burns
Wife
My Story, Mystery
The Women You Didn’ t See
DRAWING: GRIFFIN, MAYBE
POETRY
Iceberg
Crippled Body
Love-Hate
Thief
DRAWING: KING BIRD
FICTION
Glimmer
Cold Wind
Down the Path of the Sun
Many Things in Dumnet
DRAWING: HAPPY HOUND
“ Otherwise Unremarkable”
Nicola Griffith interviewed by Nisi Shawl
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