Why read Slug and Other Stories?

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"Carefully considered, successful instances of experimental fiction" disrupt gender, genre, and identity in this deranged, otherworldly collection (Literary Hub).

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls. These stories…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Slug and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Anne Elizabeth Moore

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I love fiction that makes me reexamine what I want and how to acquire it best, and Milks’ short story collection is jam-packed with tales that do exactly that across a panoply of desires.

I find myself returning to this book every few months to check my narrative instincts as a writer: Am I being disgusting enough? Am I pulling the rug out from under the reader with enough force? Am I exerting sufficient control over the relationship between the reader and the read subject?

It’s a sharp, hilarious, jarring collection that keeps giving me something new at every read.

From Anne's 3 favorite reads in 2023.