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Nights at the Circus

by Rob Friesel

When I read Angela Carter, I imagine her as the literary grandmother to someone like Kelly Link 1.  There’s an eccentric tone of fantasy, an unabashed outlandishness and roguish word-play; a challenge runs through the narrative as a thread, sometimes cleverly concealed at the seams and sometimes out in front like so much gaudy embroidery. […]