Alex McElroy’s writing appears or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Georgia Review, Tin House, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Music & Literature, Indiana Review, and more work can be found at alexmcelroy.org. He currently lives in Bulgaria.
Summer 2016
Protean Fictions: On Lincoln Michel’s Upright Beasts
Over the past couple decades, the dominance of realist fiction in the literary landscape has been challenged by the rise of weird fiction. Prominent examples include the steampunk fairy tales of Kelly Link, Karen Russell’s swamp-gothic surrealism, and Jeff VanderMeer’s eco-sci-fi Southern Reach trilogy.