Helen Oyeyemis new novel sounds interstitial as hell--and this NYTimes review contained language that weve actually used to define it: a novel that teaches you to read it on its own terms, as Delia Sherman said in one INTERFICTIONS intro. Here, Porochista Khakpour says: When you read Oyeyemi you are taught to read all over again by someone who has not been put through the fluorescent-lit, mahogany-round-tabled system of workshops, with obscure journals as sacred texts and critically acclaimed curmudgeons as deities. You are reading another reader first. At a time when writers are expected to adopt a professional polish — conforming to social media expectations and etiquettes, for example — Oyeyemi is in dialogue not so much with her media-trained contemporaries as with the old worlds of fairy tales and folk tales.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:55:37 +0000
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