Category Archives: Criticism & Reviews

Patricia A. McKillip’s Harrowing the Dragon

Posted on 17 November 2011 by Robert

In fantasy circles, Patricia A. McKillip has long been considered a consummate stylist, and her style has been the main reason I have read thirteen of her novels (with several more to read on my shelf). I was particularly interested … Continue reading →

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Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel

Posted on 10 November 2011 by Robert

I had been eager to read Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay (Roc-Penguin, 2007; all quotations are taken from this text), which won the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Novels, and indeed to read any book by Kay, who’s been highly … Continue reading →

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Catherynne M. Valente’s The Orphan Tales, Vol. 2

Posted on 3 November 2011 by Robert

What follows is the second of two  posts about Catherynne M. Valente’s duology, The Orphan’s Tales, wherein I discuss her style. Valente’s earliest published work was poetry, followed by short novels that might have been considered prose-poetry, given their density … Continue reading →

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Catherynne M. Valente’s The Orphan Tales, Vol. 1

Posted on 27 October 2011 by Robert

I realized, after I had begun reading Catherynne M. Valente‘s The Orphan’s Tales Volume 1: In the Night Garden (Bantam Spectra, 2006; all quotations are taken from this edition), that discussing both volumes of The Orphan’s Tales might be a … Continue reading →

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Zoran Zivkovic’s Twelve Collections & The Teashop

Posted on 20 October 2011 by Robert

Zoran Zivkovic was another new author to me, and I’m happy to have discovered him. His Twelve Collections and The Teashop, translated from the original Serbian by Alice Copple-Tosic (PS Publishing, 2007; all quotations are taken from this text), not … Continue reading →

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