How can you make a realistic novel set in the past feel like magic—and a book stuffed with magic and myth feel realistic? And why can that be a problem for historical fiction writers?
Funny you should ask: I just wrote a whole essay about that for Historia Magazine. Go take a look. Oh, and there’s a clue in the image description…
Read moreToday I have an Op-Ed in the New York Times about the rewriting the familiar disability script and changing the world.
Read moreThis is Part Two of the five-part story of my doctorate—the who, why, when, and how of it—based on questions from readers on this blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
Read more“You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull.” This essay first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2015.
Read more“You were brilliant, I think, but consumed by the inevitability of the abattoir. In your fiction all the gates are closed; characters are funnelled down a chute to flashing knives.” Epistolatory criticism first published 2015.
Read moreYou were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull…
Read moreUp at the Los Angeles Review of Books my essay, “The Women You Didn’t See.” Epistolatory criticism and a meditation on gender.
Read moreI read Brackett’s The Long Tomorrow for the first time in 2005. Five pages in, I wondered why I’d never heard of this novel. Twenty pages later, I was wondering why it wasn’t universally acknowledged as the first Great American SF Novel.
Read moreAud is my commitment to excellence made flesh/word and walking around; she uses whatever it takes to get the job done. She is the tension between the joy and discipline that is my art (or craft or life or bane, depending) filed to a point and stabbed into the tabletop.
Read moreThe golden age of queer sf is 20. Or maybe it was the 1970s. Or perhaps it was in France. It’s all relative, like the notion of ‘queer’ itself.
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Nicola Griffith