Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning: three of the most interesting painters to flourish in male-dominated Surrealism. This is Christopher Barzak’s tribute to them, three stories and an essay that enter into a humane surrealism which turns away from the unconscious and toward magic. Sometimes the stories themselves seem to be paintings. Sometimes painter and writer may be characters, regarding each other through a painful otherness, talking in shared secrets. Barzak’s stories are huge with the spacious strangeness of worlds where there is always more room for a woman to escape her tormenters, or outgrow an older self. Here we find a bird-maker and a star-catcher whose shared history spills over into the birds and the stars themselves; a girl who outgrows her clothes, her house, and finally her town—and leaves to find her body a new home; a landlord, whose marriage, motherhood, separation, sexual exploration, and excursions into self-portraiture all take place within a single apartment building. In “Remembering the body: Reconstructing the Female in Surrealism,” Barzak comments on the images that inspired these stories and discusses his own position as a writer among painters.]]> Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:18:07 +0200 https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/60763-one_for_sorrow.html https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/60763-one_for_sorrow.html
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Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio--known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is, until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one . . . and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.]]> Fri, 30 Oct 2015 23:18:08 +0200 https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/60766-the_language_of_moths.html https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/60766-the_language_of_moths.html
Fantasy. 11328 words long. First published in Realms of Fantasy, April 2005 Nebula Award Preliminary Ballot Nominee]]> Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:18:08 +0200 https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/60764-the_gone_away_place.html https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/60764-the_gone_away_place.html
From Stonewall Honor author Christopher Barzak comes a haunting novel of love and loss, in which a series of tornadoes rips through a small midwest town, forever altering the lives of those who live there.
Ellie heads up her high school yearbook, and until the tornadoes come, her biggest worry is how to raise enough money to print them. But since the day when a rash of powerful tornadoes touched down in Newfoundland, Ohio—killing more than half of the students in her school, not to mention dozens more people throughout the town—she's been haunted: by the ghosts of her best friends, by the boy next door, even by her boyfriend. And the living are haunting her too, all those left behind in the storm's wake to cope with the "gone away" pieces in their lives. A chance encounter with one ghost leads Ellie to discover a way to free the spirits that have been lingering since the storm, and she learns that she's not the only one seeing the ghosts—it's a...]]> Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:18:08 +0200 https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/353480-so_fey_queer_fairy_fiction.html https://www.bookfrom.net/christopher-barzak/353480-so_fey_queer_fairy_fiction.html
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