Don't believe the product description for Jedediah Berry's "A Window or a Small Box." This short story isn't 'magic realism.' But it is a light, dream-like adventure that falls somewhere between surrealist or absurdist fiction. Think of it as PG-13 bizarro.
Berry wants to be China Mieville when he grows up. So far he's just a pale imitation, heavy on surreal quirk and light on everything else.
When I was in my mid-teens, one of my friends was rather obsessed with Film (capital intended). I watched a lot of movies that year, most of which I could tell you little about. Brazil remains completely hazy in my memory, only a single screen shot of a greyscale monolith interior, a voice echoing t...
bookshelves: paper-read, tbr-busting-2013, winter-20122013, fradio, fantasy, mystery-thriller, published-2009, radio-4x, doo-lally, debut Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Christmas gift from Susanna Read from January 03 to 29, 2013 Opening: The expert detective's pursuit will go unnoticed, but not b...
So, imagine you trip & fall down Alice's rabbit-hole, tumbling past dreamscapes & spooky carnival sideshows before landing with a thump in a smoky jazz bar filled with pajama-clad characters from Inception & The Maltese Falcon. (Don't fail to notice the shadow of someone from Minority Report lurking...
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