‘Mainlining Ray Bradbury’:: An interview with Carmen Maria Machado

A. J.  Ashworth

‘Mainlining Ray Bradbury’: An interview with Carmen Maria Machado

A. J. Ashworth

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A conversation between acclaimed American short story writer and memoirist Carmen Maria Machado and A. J. Ashworth, with a particular focus on Machado’s story ‘Inventory’. Machado discusses what drew her to the short story as well as her evolution as a writer of the fantastical. She also touches on writing about sex, formal innovation, rejection, endings and struggling to write during the COVID pandemic.

Original language	English
Journal	Short Fiction in Theory & Practice
Volume	13
Issue number	1
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 18 Jan 2023

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carmen maria machado
her body and other parties

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‘Mainlining Ray Bradbury’: An interview with Carmen Maria Machado

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