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Apr 27, 2021
Amy Gentry
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it was amazing
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If you enjoyed My Death, please check out the incredible author interview we did for the book launch with Lisa Tuttle and Kelly Link! Link to interview here.
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: My Death is officially out from NYRB Classics today!!! I am really proud of my involvement with this project, which I hope will be a gateway drug for many to the amazing Lisa Tuttle. I adore all of Lisa's work, but this novella is particularly special--a modern-day classic of weird fiction, an uncanny feminist fable, an ...more
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: My Death is officially out from NYRB Classics today!!! I am really proud of my involvement with this project, which I hope will be a gateway drug for many to the amazing Lisa Tuttle. I adore all of Lisa's work, but this novella is particularly special--a modern-day classic of weird fiction, an uncanny feminist fable, an ...more
While not a conventional horror story, “My Death” is uncanny and chilling and supernatural. The plot involves a middle-aged woman who finds herself alone after the death of her husband and at sea in her writing career.
In a museum the unnamed narrator stumbles upon a painting of the mythical Circe by W.E. Logan, with his lover and muse Helen Elizabeth Ralston as its model. Ralston has a brief but fateful affair with the married Logan, and after a short career as a painter, becomes a writer. The ...more
In a museum the unnamed narrator stumbles upon a painting of the mythical Circe by W.E. Logan, with his lover and muse Helen Elizabeth Ralston as its model. Ralston has a brief but fateful affair with the married Logan, and after a short career as a painter, becomes a writer. The ...more
Jan 01, 2024
Bronwyn
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it was amazing
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Holy cow, this book. What a perfect novella.
I first heard of Lisa Tuttle in Monster, She Wrote and added her to my long tbr list. Then last year (okay, a few months ago, but it’s New Year’s Day, so Imma be dramatic) NYRB Classics published My Death and finally it was time.
This was perfect. I don’t know what her other work is like, but this just fit into all the things I like. A vaguely Possession-like story of researching an author, all the name drops of 20s personalities, name dropping Virago ...more
I first heard of Lisa Tuttle in Monster, She Wrote and added her to my long tbr list. Then last year (okay, a few months ago, but it’s New Year’s Day, so Imma be dramatic) NYRB Classics published My Death and finally it was time.
This was perfect. I don’t know what her other work is like, but this just fit into all the things I like. A vaguely Possession-like story of researching an author, all the name drops of 20s personalities, name dropping Virago ...more
I can't believe she actually pulled that ending off.
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Fascinating, briskly paced mystery/fantasia/horror novella. If the goal was to build interest in Tuttle, nicely done.
May 22, 2023
Juniper
marked it as to-read
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Jan 23, 2025
pearl
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