Chloe N. Clark is the author of Collective Gravities (a pick for Best Books of 2020, NPR and The Brooklyn Rail), Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, and more. She is a founding co-editor-in-chief of Cotton Xenomorph. Her next book, Every Galaxy a Circle, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press.
Today Chloe tells us about her Six Books!
1. What book are you currently reading?
What book am I not currently reading might be a fairer question at this point. After a period of not having much time to read, I've started carving out more dedicated reading time, and now I am feasting upon these long overdue delights. I can balance one non-fiction, one novel, and one short story collection at a time basically. Currently reading
Why I Love Horror edited by Becky Spratford,
Happy People Don't Live Here by Amber Sparks, and
First Kicking, then Not by Hannah Grieco.
2. What upcoming book are you really excited about?
Oh gosh (depending on when this runs), I am looking forward to quite a few in my pile of TBR and pre-orders, including Ken Liu's
All that We See or Seem,
The Earth Room by Dana Diehl,
Bitter Over Sweet by Melissa Llanes Brownlee, and so many more! I am cheating so much at this one book thing!
3. Is there a book you’re currently itching to re-read?
I love re-reading books, so I'm always hoping to re-read something. Right now, I want to re-read Victor LaValle's
Devil in Silver before the show comes out.
4. How about a book you’ve changed your mind about—either positively or negatively?
There's a lot of books I've changed my mind about in a more negative manner (some because the book no longer connects to me and some because the author has turned out to be terrible). In positives, though, I think I had to age into Mary Oliver's poetry.
5. What’s one book, which you read as a child or a young adult, that has had a lasting influence on your writing?
The Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series had a profound effect on me as a child. I got deeply into exploring folklore because of them. I also think the very disturbing and almost impressionistic illustrations greatly inspired the way I think about describing horrifying things.
6. And speaking of that, what’s your latest book, and why is it awesome?
My latest book is
Every Galaxy a Circle. It's a collection of stories that spans almost two decades of writing and revision (it has a story that was my very first fiction publication way back in the prehistoric times). Story topics include pie, basketball, space ghosts, monsters, and the scariest thing that's ever existed—yes, I'm talking about leopard seals.
Thank you, Chloe!
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