Book description
In Ex Marginalia, 20 authors of speculative fiction explore what it means to create at the intersections of their multiple marginalities. A gay man pens a letter to his departed muse, an African woman ruminates on the end of a marriage, a Filipino writer defends romantic villains.
These essays chart…
Why read it?
1 author picked Ex Marginalia as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book arrives with a profound introduction on "writing ourselves into being," and casts a crucial gaze on writing from the margins.
It invites the reader to engage with difference, whether the difference is queer or skin colour or cultural heritage or whichever form of diversity. Contributors share with the reader their art, craft, and lived experience, where "writing oneself in," as Octavia Butler did, is fundamental self-creation, snatching space that has been stolen or withheld.
This anthology of personal truths, as authors unskin to their innermost selves, is as startling as it is introspective.
From Eugen's list on The best cultural anthologies in speculative fiction.
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