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A review by captainyaht
Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
5.0
In terms of a review, Amelia Gray’s short fiction could be reduced to an equation (this would be unfair) that would involve subtracting or multiplying Donald Barthleme. So go read that guy.
Her work (this and “THREATS”) has the visceral effect I think Is best compared to having seen a foreign or independent film on your own. Something that shook what seemed possible on film. And you might describe it like shit but want everyone you to see it (eg. I saw David Lynch’s film “Inland Empire” 11 times to show friends “THIS! This! this!”)
Here’s a statement that applies to some of the best of these stories:
These are worth reading because your mind doesn’t work this way. There’s a reason someone’s mind does and you’ll sit back and think is this a humor? Or, is this a provocation (and of what quality, by the by)? Or, is this fingering America in a way that welllll ya gottta think on it?
Good book. If I was still teaching English, I’d teach a story from it.
Her work (this and “THREATS”) has the visceral effect I think Is best compared to having seen a foreign or independent film on your own. Something that shook what seemed possible on film. And you might describe it like shit but want everyone you to see it (eg. I saw David Lynch’s film “Inland Empire” 11 times to show friends “THIS! This! this!”)
Here’s a statement that applies to some of the best of these stories:
These are worth reading because your mind doesn’t work this way. There’s a reason someone’s mind does and you’ll sit back and think is this a humor? Or, is this a provocation (and of what quality, by the by)? Or, is this fingering America in a way that welllll ya gottta think on it?
Good book. If I was still teaching English, I’d teach a story from it.