Kelly Link
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Short Stories, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror
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Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969. Her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: sometimes a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.
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Authors@Google: Kelly Link and Karen Joy Fowler
Kelly Link — Magic for Beginners
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Kelly Link — Magic for Beginners
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Kelly Link and Karen Joy Fowler speak at Google as part of the Authors@Google series.
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"I don't know about you, but I'm kind of fed up with realism. After all, there's enough reality already; why make more of it? Why not leave realism for the memoirs of drug addicts, the histories of salt, the biographies of porn stars? Why must we continue to read about the travails of divorced people or mildly depressed Canadians when we could be contemplating the shopping habits of zombies, or the difficulties that ensue when living and dead people marry each other? We should be demanding more stories about faery handbags and pyjamas inscribed with the diaries of strange women. We should not rest until someone writes about a television show that features the Free People's World-Tree Library, with its elaborate waterfalls and Forbidden Books and Pirate-Magicians. We should be pining for a house haunted by rabbits."
— Kelly Link
— Kelly Link
"Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves."
— Kelly Link
— Kelly Link
"You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place."
— Kelly Link
— Kelly Link
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