Tag: carmen-maria-machado

  • Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

    I’m musing about whether this memoir–an experimental, genre-blurring, fantastical, brilliantly written account of emotional abuse in a lesbian relationship–could be placed in the True Crime section of a bookstore. As I start an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, my reading is shifting to be roughly half and half CNF and crime fiction, and that can make…