bucketkvm.blogg.se - Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

"I remember December of that year. I was sitting at the kitchen table.

I found in a notebook recently - the phrase 'girl with horns growing out of her legs,' and then 'horns' is crossed out and 'wings' is written underneath it. "The first of these stories I created for Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century was Liddy, First to Fly. "Short stories do that in this tight compact little form." You get to have experiences that you never would have otherwise. You get to see so much more of the world and what is possible. "One of the things I like about books especially, but art more generally, is that your life is so small. You're trapped in this body and this one life we have and you get to expand your universe. You can have this very short experience in this life that sticks with you for the rest of your life. You can have this very short experience that sticks with you for the rest of your life. You read them over a lunch hour or a bus ride. In that tiny space of time, you have the opportunity to be transported into a whole other world - and you have lived a whole lifetime with this character. The Seattle-based Fu spoke with CBC Books about writing Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century.

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7, 2022.įu, along with Norma Dunning and Steven Price, is on the jury for the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is on the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist. The winner will be announced on Nov. The tales contain imaginative premises that blur the line between the familiar and unfamiliar, from a woman who recreates culinary experiences to a world that can no longer taste to a bug-infested house that serves as an escape from an abusive ex-boyfriend.

Her latest work, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, is a collection of short stories that use elements of science fiction and fantasy to explore the strange and uncanny elements of human nature, relationships and technology. She has also written a poetry collection titled How Festive the Ambulance: Poems. Kim Fu is the Vancouver-born author of two novels, For Today I Am a Boy and The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore.