She is an Assistant Professor at the New School and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, n+1, and The Guardian. Ma’s latest book is Bliss Montage, a collection of eight oddball short stories that put a surreal twist on run-of-the-mill contemporary experiences: two childhood friends grow apart in adulthood, a woman has trouble letting go of an abusive relationship, a couple in a rough patch goes on a vacation. Ma will be in conversation with Alexandra Kleeman, the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, one of the New York Times’ Notable Books of 2021, Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine. She is the author of the novel Severance, which received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. A toxic friendship grows up around a drug that makes you invisible. A woman lives in a house with all her ex-boyfriends. In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. Ling Ma’s new story collection, Bliss Montage, take place in pockets removed from reality, or at least human connection as we know it. This event is in partnership with Powell's Books, BookPeople, and Skylight Books Rating: 4.Click Here to register for this virtual event.These and other scenarios investigate the ways that the outlandish and the ordinary are shockingly, deceptively, heartbreakingly alike. Theres humor via the husband, who speaks in dollar signs, and. An ancient ritual might heal you of anything-if you bury yourself alive. 'Bliss Montage' opens with 'Los Angeles,' a grim fairy tale of a woman who lives with her husband as well as 100 ex-boyfriends. Ma will receive 20,000 for Bliss Montage. What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end? In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma brings us eight wildly different tales of people making their way through the madness and reality of our collective delusions: love and loneliness, connection and possession, friendship, motherhood, the idea of home. NEW YORK (AP) Ling Mas Bliss Montage, a collection which blends the real and the surreal, has won the Story Prize for best short fiction. A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.

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