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Thanks, Chip

It's one of the big, nice rewards of writing when someone whose work you admire a lot says they admire yours. Chip Delany--Samuel R. Delany, whose writing is one of my touchstones in fiction and criticism--had something really nice to say about Chasing Shakespeares. Boy. Wow. Thank you, Chip.

Interfictions

When Delia Sherman told me about Interfictions, the first anthology of Interstitial Arts fiction, I wanted desperately to be in it, especially since it's going to be published by the stellar Small Beer Press. But life is busy and I didn't submit a story, so I'm so glad that I got to translate one. Léa Silhol's "Emblemata" is a wise, tender, resonant story about one of the saddest acts of artistic destruction in recent times, the blowing up of the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan. I hope the translation is worthy of it.

One of the other stories in the anthology is by wonderful Vandana Singh, whose first Younguncle book got the ultimate review from Ursula K. LeGuin; "Anyone who reads this book will be perfectly happy." It's true. And yet another is by Veronica Schanoes...and Rachel Pollack...and Catherynne Valente...and Colin Greenland...

Oh, well, here's the whole table of contents. Buy this book!

• Karen Allen, "Alternate Anxieties”
• Chris Barzak, “What We Know About the Lost Families of --- House”
• Tempest Bradford, "Black Feather"
• Matthew Cheney, "A Map of the Everywhere"
• Michael Deluca, "The Utter Proximity of God"
• Adrian Ferrero, "When it Rains, You Better Get Out of Ulga" (Argentina, translated from the Spanish by Edo Mor)
• Colin Greenland, "Timothy" (U.K.)
• Csilla Kleinheincz, "A Drop of Raspberry" (Hungary, translated from the Hungarian by Noémi Szelényi)
• Joy Marchand, "Pallas at Noon"
• Holly Phillips, "Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom"
• Rachel Pollack, "Burning Beard—The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt"
• Veronica Schanoes, "Rats"
• Léa Silhol, "Emblemata" (France, translated from the French by Sarah Smith)
• Jon Singer, "Willow Pattern"
• Vandana Singh, "Hunger"
• Anna Tambour, "The Shoe in SHOES' Window" (Australia)
• Mikal Trimm, "Climbing Redemption Mountain"
• Leslie What, "Post Hoc"
• Catherynne Valente, "A Dirge for Prester John"

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Brooks School students, read or download "Three Shakespearean Mysteries" here!