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An Interview with Kelly McMasters on “The Leaving Season” – Chicago Review of Books

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An Interview with Kelly McMasters on “The Leaving Season” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In the central pages of The Leaving Season, Kelly McMasters decides to leave her marriage. Together with her husband, a painter, she had moved from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to enjoy a slower pace of life, start a family, and later open a bookshop. The decision to leave upends it all. In … Read more

Enchanted Retellings in Kelly Link’s “White Cat, Black Dog” – Chicago Review of Books

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Enchanted Retellings in Kelly Link’s “White Cat, Black Dog” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Kelly Link’s fiction always brings to my mind the old-timey phrase “spinning a yarn.” Although I’ve learned this idiom has nautical origins, for me, it evokes spindles, spinning wheels, and the realm of folktales. And while Link tends to reinvent her own style so that no two stories are alike, all of them can … Read more