"I was adored once too."

Just read a teaser for the second Ben novella at Arisia—bears!—and came back to find this lovely review of the first, by Brit Mandelo:

"It’s about transformation, trauma, and the supernatural; gender, the stage, and the ghosts of history. It’s probably no surprise that I adored it. Between the richly realized setting, the clever haunting of the text with the poets and playwrights who loom large in the English tradition, and the stunning prose, I was enamored from the first—and my appreciation didn’t dwindle as I kept reading."

Nine