Terena Elizabeth Bell on Tell Me What You See

Apr 11

April 11, 2023. My guest this week is Terena Elizabeth Bell, a writer whose exciting embrace of nearly every available form both challenges the expectation of story and fully engages its opportunities, demands and, lately, urgent requirements. In Tell Me What You See: Ten Stories, Bell chronicles our recent desperate past but also projects its aesthetics of fascism and pandemic onto a science fiction present and future as the everyday moments of family, community and informed resistance. Think Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut and be engaged. The title story is a January 6 perspective buster, and her journal-style New York pandemic tale is a rebuke to all the purposeful forgetting of late about the deaths of millions.Thanks for supporting listener-supported Pacifica Radio KPFK 90.7 FM for all of Southern California.

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