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Sep. 15th, 2003 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susanstinsonOoo, and, another first, a review that I wrote of Nymph by Francesca Lia Block has just been posted at Strange Horizons, a weekly magazine of speculative fiction on the web.
To find it, just look down the page for this and click on the link:
REVIEWS: Sexual Transformations: Nymph by Francesca Lia Block, by Susan Stinson
The stories in Nymph don't take a reader to another, distant world, but deeper into the unspoken places of this one. Each story is small and radiant, with delicate, precise language and spare settings that open into hidden recesses of consciousness and sexuality.
These stories mostly represent sexuality very different than my own, but I loved them for their magic realism and for how beautifully they are written. Evidently Francesca Lia Block is very well-known for her Weetzie Bat books, but I had never heard of her before I read Nymph because her publisher, Circlet Press, sent me a review copy.
And it's great to be published in a magazine of speculative fiction, since I've been drawn to those genres lately.
To find it, just look down the page for this and click on the link:
REVIEWS: Sexual Transformations: Nymph by Francesca Lia Block, by Susan Stinson
The stories in Nymph don't take a reader to another, distant world, but deeper into the unspoken places of this one. Each story is small and radiant, with delicate, precise language and spare settings that open into hidden recesses of consciousness and sexuality.
These stories mostly represent sexuality very different than my own, but I loved them for their magic realism and for how beautifully they are written. Evidently Francesca Lia Block is very well-known for her Weetzie Bat books, but I had never heard of her before I read Nymph because her publisher, Circlet Press, sent me a review copy.
And it's great to be published in a magazine of speculative fiction, since I've been drawn to those genres lately.