With a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel
Forget the Sleepless Shores has just been favorably reviewed by Brit Mandelo at Tor.com's Queering SFF:
Forget the Sleepless Shores is a haunting, quiet collection of primarily magic-realist stories—poetic and melancholy, echoing Taaffe's usual liminal occupation of multiple genres and modes . . . Introspective and unnerving, poetic and affective: it's what Taaffe does best.
I am putting that last line on all future book jackets if I have anything to say about it.
Now feels as good a time as any to mention that I will be in Brooklyn in February, reading with three other authors for the Women in Horror Month Readings & Q&A at McNally Jackson Williamsburg organized by Farah Rose Smith. I hope to see some New York people there.
And the mail just brought me a Hanukkah DVD from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie, which I treasure especially since it's the very last movie I watched on FilmStruck and I adored it.
I can write about a nightmare I had some other time.
Forget the Sleepless Shores is a haunting, quiet collection of primarily magic-realist stories—poetic and melancholy, echoing Taaffe's usual liminal occupation of multiple genres and modes . . . Introspective and unnerving, poetic and affective: it's what Taaffe does best.
I am putting that last line on all future book jackets if I have anything to say about it.
Now feels as good a time as any to mention that I will be in Brooklyn in February, reading with three other authors for the Women in Horror Month Readings & Q&A at McNally Jackson Williamsburg organized by Farah Rose Smith. I hope to see some New York people there.
And the mail just brought me a Hanukkah DVD from
selkie, which I treasure especially since it's the very last movie I watched on FilmStruck and I adored it.I can write about a nightmare I had some other time.
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