To celebrate her second collection of stories, Kelly Link is giving away (most) of her first collection, Magic for Beginners, as a digital download.
I will not lie to you: most fiction that could be classed as interstitial makes me merely tired. But Link pulls off some very cool things, especially in the famous title story. And it’s free!
[Seen at GalleyCat.]
I must confess, “Magic for Beginners” is one of the stories in F&SF that I didn’t finish. (There’s one every third issue or so.)
–Jeff Stehman
I totally understand this, and can’t really articulate why I tipped the other way on the story. That’s kind of what interests me about her writing, though: I like it but I’m not sure why.
Hey thanks! I like Kelly Link a lot AND I have an ebook reader…
No problem. I should probably get one of these e-readers… but as soon as I invest in technology it becomes obsolete.
If you are only going to use it occasionally, I’d wait for a later generation, certainly.
I like that, ‘makes me merely tired’.
Or you could quote the Boss, ‘It’s just tired and bored with itself.’ 😉
“I like that, ‘makes me merely tired’.”
Thanks!
“Or you could quote the Boss, ‘It’s just tired and bored with itself.’ ;-)”
Could be. I see interstitial (and interstitialists) as about the only ones who aren’t tired of interstitial, but maybe I’m misreading that.
The whole theory seems to me to be flawed: Is this event fantastic (in the technical sense) or isn’t it? I prefer fiction that clearly does something as opposed to fiction that does not clearly do anything.
On the other hand, the relationship between theory and practice is a rocky one (especially in fiction). Though interstitial fiction in the abstract repels me, I find myself liking some interstitial stories.