Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It’s A Living, Sort Of
If you love the work of Kelly Link, you owe it to yourself to check out “Six From Downtown,” a collection of six vignettes about despair and alienation by Philippine writer Dean Francis Alfar. Plus, a poet explains magic realism! “Six From Downtown” definitely reminds me of Link at her best, with its stark, dreamlike…