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Tag: magic realism

Written by Bronte CronsberryMay 30, 2022

Beyond Belief: Magic and Queerness in The Chosen and the Beautiful

With fashion resurgences and a 2012 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby captures not just a period of time, the 1920s in America, but a lifestyle that seems to be perennially fascinating to a wide audience. However, it is very much a product of its time and lacks representations of […]

Written by Bronte CronsberryJuly 24, 2019

Too Strange to be Explained: The Tiny Wife and Welcome to Night Vale

Book recommendations can be difficult even when the story that is being explained is relatively simple or familiar. However, some stories are beyond what can be easily described in a blurb while trying to recommend the book to a friend because they are simply too strange to be explained. Novels, Welcome to Night Vale by […]

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