Last year, Aimee Bender — two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize and contributor to GQ, Harper’s, and The Paris Review — kicked off Tablet magazine’s new series of original fiction. Aimee Bender is the author of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her new collection Willful Creatures is full of edgy emotion, blooming adolescents, chance meetings and potato children who, like the kid in all of us, yearn to be accepted and loved. This woman with tousled brown hair and red everything else (dress, shoes, necklace, lipstick) is about to change my literary world. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. In both her previous collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and this newest one, Willful Creatures, her fiction adopts the tone of fairytales through the straightforward storytelling of the bizarre.
Skeleton for Aimee Bender's The Healer Introduction The Healer by Aimee Bender is a short story that seems at first glance to be some sort of modern fairy tale: the protagonists are two young girls, one good and one bad, who possess supernatural abilities and the story is … WILLFUL CREATURES Stories. Email This BlogThis! Aimee Bender's story "The Rememberer" centers on the transformation of the narrator's lover from a man to an assortment of animals, as he de-evolves. Aimee Bender is the author of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures.Her work has been widely anthologized and has been translated into ten languages. She has garnered a reputation for being a brilliant linguist as well as her indefatigable imagination. This fairy tale a touches magical elements and makes the reading experience more enjoyable for me. Aimee Bender August 10, 2013 8:00PM (UTC) From the book THE COLOR MASTER. Aimee Bender is magic maker extraordinaire. Aimee Bender's "Off" is an interesting piece. "End of the Line," one of the most appealing pieces in the collection, assumes a world in which there are human creatures no bigger than a normal human's thumb whom we big folk sometimes keep as pets. These modern day fairy tales with a touch of magical elements makes the reading experience more enjoyable for me. $22.95. “End of the Line,” p. 14 Recently, Garrison Keillor mentioned a new writer, Aimee Bender on his daily post, “The Writer’s Almanac.” Garrison noted that Bender’s quirky and enigmatic books were causing quite a stir on the west coast – short stories about families with pumpkin heads and little boys who are born with fingers shaped like keys. Yesterday, we spent some time learning about the literary genre magic realism, in which magical or unreal elements accent stories that are otherwise grounded in reality (as opposed to books like the Harry Potter series, which are straight fantasy.) She lives in Los Angeles.
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