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Latest Issue of Celebrated Literary Magazine <em>Conjunctions</em> Gathers Leading Writers to Explore the Question: Who or What Is an Alien?<br />   Image Credit: Joseba Elorza (aka MiraRuido), Invasion, digital collage, 2013. © Joseba Elorza 2016; all rights reserved by the artist.

Latest Issue of Celebrated Literary Magazine Conjunctions Gathers Leading Writers to Explore the Question: Who or What Is an Alien?
 

Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens Features Kelly Link, Samuel R. Delany, Brian Evenson, Joyce Carol Oates, John Crowley, John Clute, Paul Park, Peter Straub, Jeffrey Ford, James Morrow, Julia Elliott, Valerie Martin, Leena Krohn, and Lavie Tidhar
 
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.– Who or what is an alien? Someone or something whose profound otherness stirs in us terror, even dread, or perhaps a healthy—sometimes dangerous—curiosity? Exploring these straightforward yet complex questions, Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens—the latest issue of the innovative literary magazine published by Bard College—collects works of literary science and speculative fiction that explore the vast precincts of unfamiliarity, of keen difference, of weirdness and not belonging. Edited by Conjunctions editor, novelist, and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow and novelist Elizabeth Hand, Other Aliens features a historic selection of letters from James Tiptree Jr. to Joanna Russ, as well as interviews with Kelly Link by Elizabeth Hand and with Samuel R. Delany by Brian Evenson, and a conversation between John Crowley and John Clute. Other highlights include new work from Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Park, Peter Straub, Jeffrey Ford, James Morrow, Julia Elliott, Valerie Martin, Leena Krohn (trans. Eva Buchwald), and Lavie Tidhar, among other leading contemporary writers.
 
“In these glimpses into the writerly mind, as in all the imaginative worlds this issue contains, we pursue a definition of the indefinable,” write Morrow and Hand. “Aliens are, by definition, Other. They are the stuff of science and speculative fiction, of fantastika and fantasy, yes, but they are also traditional literary figures whom society, however unfairly, has labeled pariahs, misfits, nonpersons, the Ishmaels of the world. When Frankenstein’s monster stalks the countryside, a threatening, ill-fated product of human genius and hubris, he is the alien, the Other. But those who misjudge him and seek his destruction are also the Others in Shelley’s story.”
 
Additional contributors to Other Aliens include Matthew Baker, Madeline Bourque Kearin, Michael Parrish Lee, Jean Muno (trans. Edward Gauvin), Jessica Reed, Laura Sims, S. P. Tenhoff, Jonathan Thirkield, and E. G. Willy.

The Washington Post says, “Conjunctions offers a showplace for some of the most exciting and demanding writers now at work.” Edited by Bradford Morrow and published twice yearly by Bard College, Conjunctions publishes innovative fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by emerging voices and contemporary masters. For more than three decades, Conjunctions has challenged accepted forms and styles, with equal emphasis on groundbreaking experimentation and rigorous quality. Conjunctions continues to lead all small-press literary periodicals in the number of Pushcart Prizes in fiction received by its contributors, and it has been twice recognized by VIDA for excellence in providing a platform for female voices.
 
For more information on the latest issue, please visit http://www.conjunctions.com/otheraliens.htm. To order a copy, go to http://annandaleonline.org/conjunctions, call the Conjunctions office at 845-758-7054, e-mail [email protected], or write to Conjunctions, Bard College, P.O. Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000. Visit the Conjunctions website at www.conjunctions.com.
 
[Note to editors: To obtain review copies, please call Mark Primoff at 845-758-7412 or e-mail [email protected]]
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(11.2.16)
 

This event was last updated on 11-03-2016

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