{"title":"‘Mainlining Ray Bradbury’: An interview with Carmen Maria Machado","authors":"A. Ashworth","doi":"10.1386/fict_00079_7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A conversation between acclaimed American short story writer and memoirist Carmen Maria Machado and writer A. J. Ashworth, with a particular focus on Machado’s story ‘Inventory’ from her collection Her Body and Other Parties. 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-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":"134 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00079_7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A conversation between acclaimed American short story writer and memoirist Carmen Maria Machado and writer A. J. Ashworth, with a particular focus on Machado’s story ‘Inventory’ from her collection Her Body and Other Parties. 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-19 pandemic.