Reviews of Museum of the Weird
“Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird is a cabinet of curiosities—a talking armadillo, a serial killer named God, a woman who amputates her toes for dinner, a man married to a paring knife—this collection of stories is so good and funny and wondrous that I couldn’t look away from her dark and curious imagination.”
—Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody, How Much of Us There Was,
and The Way the Family Got Away
“To say Amelia Gray belongs in the hilariously inventive hallows of Ann Quin and Rikki Ducornet would be to miss her light. This book is gleaming evidence of the author as a trophy case unto herself, wrought of magic equally surprising, wicked, giddy, and loaded with a megaton of Boom.”
—Blake Butler, author of Scorch Atlas and Ever
Reviews of AM/PM
“At moments screwy, prickly and pleasantly surprising, Gray’s short shorts deliver youthful snapshots about being nuts in love… A delectable debut.” Publishers Weekly
“The stories in AM/PM have ruined me as a reader of shorts. I will no longer be satisfied by the merely beautiful, the singularly clever, or the one big thought purely rendered. I want all those things in a two hundred word package. I want to be highly amused and deeply sad at the exact same time. Amelia Gray packs more power in a paragraph than I thought possible.” —Stacey Swann, Editor of American Short Fiction
“Amelia Gray’s AM/PM is a collection of flash fiction, stories that create tangible worlds and interesting characters in their 50 to 150 words. More importantly (and amazingly), read together these stories form a cohesive and often surprising narrative through their recurring themes and characters.”—Largehearted Boy
“Gray evokes wonder and dread; romanticism and despair. And slowly, as you make your way through AM/PM’s stories, patterns begin to emerge as characters recur and situations evolve — a much more resonant emotional experience than one might expect from flash fiction.”—Interview at The Scowl
“AM/PM is a refreshing, magical book, equipped with so much lucid linage that its hard not to want to read each page again and again, extending each small punch of threaded pleasure.…”—HTMLgiant
“At last, a book I can read over and over again. No, seriously. I’m not that guy. This is an important book. I wish that I could just somehow telepathically communicate this fact to you. If you’ve ever trusted any of my recommendations, then trust this one.”—MADOREABLE
“Refreshingly original…”—Interview at Orange Alert
“62. AM/PM is a do-it-yourself kit to protect imagination.”—John Madera, Word Riot
Interviews
With Ethel Rohan at Dark Sky Magazine, May 2010
With Molly Gaudry at Keyhole Magazine, Oct 7 2009
With Zach Dodson at Powell’s Books, Aug 10 2009
At Largehearted Boy, June 5 2009
Tobias Carroll at The Scowl, May 6 2009
Orange Alert with Jason Behrends, Feb 5 2009
