REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS

Reviews of THREATS

“This is an innovative debut novel featuring a most unreliable (and compelling) narrator.” — Publishers Weekly

“THREATS is an astonishing storm of language and imagination that will awaken some lost, ravenous part of your mind. Amelia Gray sees love, pain, and beauty where no one else is even looking.” — Patrick Somerville, author of The Cradle and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

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

“What could be mistaken for sameness is instead a purposeful vision, relentless in its inquisitive march along the fringes of human solitude. A veteran of the small presses … Gray deserves greater recognition.” —Publishers Weekly

“Everyone should read this book. Even children. Even bees. Everyone.” — Amber Sparks at Big Other

“With what one writer friend called ‘intimidating talent,’ Gray weaves a tapestry of some odd and discomforting, yet somehow reaffirming, world that looks strangely like ours.” —Nik Korpon at OWC

“Throughout the book, Gray confidently takes readers places they’ve yet to visit.” —Nick Kocz at The Collagist

“Museum of the Weird is a stone cold masterpiece.” —Kyle Minor at The Faster Times

“Gray is a spectacular writer, if you can stomach her stories.” —Sam Edgin

“Museum of the Weird reminded me why I write and read: to get back to that place where play-logic is law, where no one can judge you but yourself, where your best friend is waiting, with her branch and her crown, to wage war on a tribe of feral children.” Bess Winter at The Rumpus

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