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 Seattle. Her fiction appears in Gastronomica, Fairy Tale Review, Washington City Paper, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction appears in Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Jewish in Seattle, Kirkus,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 one of the “fresh new faces in Seattle fiction.” Her debut novel is Daughters of the Air (Lanternfish Press, 2017).
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