“Machado’s work doesn’t just have form, it takes form. Hers is a greedy oeuvre… in [her] stories, form is uncanny, sly, a pool of raindrops, a slightly skewed face in the mirror. We’ve seen it all before, but never quite like this.” --“Double Take: On Carmen Maria Machado” by Sofia Samatar in Los Angeles Review of Books “Carmen Maria Machado’s stories build and build until they surround and ensnare, and at the end…

(With apologies to the good people doing good work at the Cleveland Clinic.) No Color: Probably you shouldn’t be playing that drinking game at work, that game where every time your boss makes you want to down a martini you leave your desk instead and go to the water fountain, filling your environmentally-friendly aluminum bottle while you count to ten and imagine a cornucopia of violent deaths, a whirring, churning food processor of possibilities…