![]() ![]() The way that I think of daytime logic is that, whether or not it’s at work in a genre like science fiction or in a realistic novel about a failed marriage, it maps onto the reader’s sense that the world works in a way where we feel at ease with the rules by how life ‒ or magic ‒ operates.Ĭonsequences and actions have power because we can see how they will play out. ![]() What do we learn by combining the mythical or fantastic – “nighttime logic” – with the post-post-modern realism – “daytime logic?” Link’s third book, “Pretty Monsters,” was released by Penguin and her most recent, “Get in Trouble,” comes from Random House. Her first two books, “Stranger Things Happen” and “Magic for Beginners,” were first published through Small Beer Press, which she runs with her husband, Gavin J. They ponder interior life as they keep characters between two worlds, what Link describes as “daytime logic” and “nighttime logic.” ![]() ![]() Link’s stories, however, are more than a fanciful parade. A grave-robbing poet who unearths the wrong ghost. An ex-vampire nursing heartbreak on the set of a nudist ghost-hunting show. A house where unseen vacationers demand constant care. She is the author of four books of stories in which ordinary people fall into conversation with the extraordinary, mythical, and fantastic.Ī handbag that devours things, including the narrator’s boyfriend. UNCG’s newest MacArthur “genius” grant recipient Kelly Link ’95 MFA likes to “keep the ground shifting beneath the reader’s feet,” as she says. ![]()
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