These days she mostly writes YA, which I’m sure is excellent, and a couple of years ago a non-horror adult novel, Under the Poppy, published by the delightful Small Beer Press. In the end I’m not sure the genre label was the best thing for them she was working in a transgressive tradition that’s made literary cult heroes out of writers from Burroughs to Palahniuk and points beyond and in between. Her prose, her depictions of people on the edge, her eschewing of traditional plot devices–I loved all that, and she was fearless, she was audacious in these books. Robin, an artist with schizophrenia, begins to transform into an otherwordly being in the care of photographer Grant: supernatural event, or folie à deux? Koja wrote and still writes other books but it was this trilogy of novels that spoke to me then: The Cipher, Skin, and Strange Angels, all of them savage, bleak, relentless journeys into the psyches of lost and damaged people. Nakota’s obsessed with the ‘funhole’ that’s appeared in the floor in Nicholas’s apartment. Tess creates massive SRL-inspired mechanistic sculptures. Performance artist Bibi can’t stop cutting her flesh.
Her protagonists were artists, fuckups, obsessives her books felt dangerous.
She was, for me, the antidote to the complacent middle-class families threatened by horror in so much novel-length fiction of the 70s and 80s. The scariest thing of all may be how talented its featured authors are.Hallucinatory, feverish, dreamlike–I keep writing and erasing these clichés to describe how Kathe Koja’s books felt the first time I encountered them in the mid-90s. Thursday's event with Kraus and Koja promises to be "a chilling evening that will still be less terrifying than anything you can see on the evening news," according to the online description.īut don't worry.
The next Literally will be December 7 with guests Maya Schenwar ("Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better") and Casey Rocheteau "(The Dozen"). He was killed under hazy circumstances at age 29. She will be reading from "Christopher Wild," her 2017 novel about Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan playwright who was also a poet, rebel, spy and atheist. "I think of it as having entree to all kinds of parties, where there are all kinds of people, all kinds of conversations going on that I'm always ready to join," Koja writes of her many genres on her website. She's known, too, for creating immersive theatrical experiences like her 2013 version of "Faustus" done at the historic First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit. Koja, who is based in Detroit, has won praise for her innovative 1990s horror novels like "The Cipher" and "Skin," along with her young-adult novels. The two teamed up again for "The Shape of Water," the book version of the fantasy Cold War-era film by del Toro that opens in December. Kraus is known for collaborating with del Toro on the young-adult novel "Trollhunters," which inspired a Netflix series. Kraus will be reading from "The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch," his fascinating 2015 novel - the first of two volumes - about a 19th-Century teenage criminal who is shot dead and then mysteriously resurrected. Publisher's Weekly called it "morbidly fascinating," and Entertainment Weekly said the dead title character "is by turns cavalier, playful, and thoughtful, and his singular voice.
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She will host the growing Scarab Club version, which is free (though attendees are encouraged to buy books while there or make a donation to what's called "the beverage-and-travel fund"). Moore, a cultural critic and comics anthologist whose latest book is the essay collection "Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes," started the concept with small gatherings at her Write A House home. (That's the program that renovates houses in the Motor City and gives them free to writers doing a long-term residency.) The Literally series, which happens Thursday at the Scarab Club in Midtown Detroit, was founded and curated by Anne Elizabeth Moore, who relocated here from Chicago through Write a House.
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