Sometimes that’s what I need to tell the story. I guess I like having all the tools of storytelling at my disposal, and historically that has included things beyond human perception, or entering the surreal realm-so I enjoy using those elements. What attracts you the most about speculative genres?Ĭarmen Maria Machado: Oh goodness…. Some of her stories, creative nonfiction essays, and blog posts can be read at, and her excellent novella Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law and Order can be read online here.Īmandine Faucheux: You don’t exclusively write speculative or horror stories, but you do use a lot of these tropes. Her Bodies is Machado’s first book, though she has been widely published in The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, NPR, and VICE, among others. As I set my recorder to begin my interview, the author of the forthcoming short story collection Her Bodies and Other Parties (Graywolf Press, Fall 2017), a friendly dog puts his nose on our laps. Carmen Maria Machado and I sit outside Simple Joe’s Café in Baton Rouge for brunch-shrimp and grits for her, blueberry quinoa yogurt for me.
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