My review of Robin Sloan‘s debut novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is up on the Ploughshares blog. I’m still having fun playing with the review-in-lists form. Here’s how it begins:
What: a book about books
And: their simultaneous demise and triumph
And, obviously: immortality
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Anca L. Szilágyi is a Brooklynite living in Chicago. Her fiction appears in Lilith Magazine, Confrontation, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, Orion Magazine, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Made at Hugo House, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4Culture, and Artist Trust. The Stranger hailed Anca as “a fantastic magical realist.” She is the author of Daughters of the Air, which Shelf Awareness called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” and The Seattle Review of Books called “a creation of unearthly talents.” Her second novel is forthcoming in 2022.
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