Books that changed me: Kelly Link
Kelly Link is the author of the story collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, The Wrong Grave, Pretty Monsters and most recently Get In Trouble (Text Publishing). Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. Link is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. She was born in Miami, Florida and lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Norse Myths
The first book I ever bought for myself and with my own money (at a jumble sale). Loki was, of course, my favourite. Don't we all love someone who breaks the rules of how the story is supposed to go?
Toni Morrison
Look, this is the great American novel. Sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, the most beautiful and terrible book (and ghost story) I've ever read.
Carmen Dog
Carol Emshwiller
A battle of the sexes novel in which animals begin to turn into women, and women turn into animals. A wife becomes a wolverine. A dog yearns to sing opera at the Metropolitan. Mad scientists! A book I was so crazy about that I eventually republished it through the small press that I run with my husband.
The Collected Stories
Grace Paley
I would love Paley's stories for their first sentences alone: "There once were two husbands disappointed by eggs." These are the truest, funniest, most hard-headed stories that I know about families and marriages, love and class.
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