![]() Alongside Kelly Link, fabulist authors like Aimee Bender, George Saunders, Lucy Corin, Kate Bernheimer, Karen Russell, Matt Bell, and Kevin Brockmeier were earning critical acclaim. The past decade has witnessed the meteoric rise of previously ignored author JK Rowling, whose penultimate book in the Harry Potter Series, The Half Blood Prince, was released the same year as Magic for Beginners to unprecedented success. Luckily, the literary landscape was changing, and changing fast. ![]() As Audrey Niffenegger wrote in her review of Link’s book for The Guardian in 2007, “I don’t know about you, but I’m kind of fed up with realism.” For many readers of my generation, it felt as if domestic realism had fallen behind in its ability to capture how we experienced the world-and, perhaps more importantly, how we wanted to experience the world. ![]() ![]() When Kelly Link’s second short story collection, Magic for Beginners, was published ten years ago this week, the showdown between realism and fantasy was in full swing. ![]()
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