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“... In​ the acknowledgments to Her Body & Other Parties Carmen MariaMachado strikes a note of respect for her predecessors that isn’t far from abasement: ‘Every woman artist who has come before me. I am speechless in the face of their courage.’ The stories in the book don’t really match this, their attitude being closer to a productive impertinence ...”

“... In fact, it’s arguably not a novel at all, part of it having first appeared as a short story. Carmen MariaMachado, in her foreword to the Faber reissue, sees the book sitting ‘somewhere between story collection and fix-up novel’ (a subgenre associated with science fiction). Dick herself gives it the subtitle ...”

“... was she got to feel a dick inside her. The prose has gone into poetry drag. Like Maggie Nelson or Carmen MariaMachado, Lawlor is interested in blending styles and genres – or, perhaps more accurately, refuses to be confined by genre boundaries. As Polly, Paul does things Paul wouldn’t do; he cries easily, for ...”

“... writers – Kelly Link, Karen Russell – as well as newcomers such as Lesley Nneka Arimah and Carmen MariaMachado. Perhaps what Eggers means isn’t moral fiction, but morally simplistic fiction: stories that give up their insights easily, that demand little of the reader. The burden of moral simplicity, in our ...”