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Sensory Imagery
David Jauss’s fiction is rich in sensory imagery that is at once evocative and enveloping for the reader and the trigger of memories for the characters in his stories. He relies not only on visual images but employs all the … Continue reading →
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T.C. Boyle’s Constructed Realities
TC Boyle’s fiction is satiric, surreal, comic, and dark. His first book, Descent of Man, published in 1979, is an eclectic collection of short stories that incorporate elements of popular culture, anthropology, and psychology. Several stories in this collection start … Continue reading →
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Surrealism and Sarcasm in Aimee Bender’s Fiction
The stories in Aimee Bender’s first collection of short stories, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, published in 1998, contain, to varying degrees, surrealism and sarcasm. In her best stories, these are not mere affectations but are pathways to deeper, … Continue reading →
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