Tag: Angela Woodward
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“A Hallucinatory Clarity”: Marcus Pactor in Conversation with Angela Woodward
Angela Woodward works both unlikely and widely known history into her slim fictions. In her new novel, Ink, she weaves together (among other things) the origin of PDFs, the transcripts of Abu Ghraib detainee testimonies, the life and work of Francis Ponge, and the strangely moving lives of typists. The result offers a brief, memorable…
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“Car-X”: An Excerpt from Angela Woodward’s New Novel Ink
“We have extensive accounts, typed out neatly: ‘They took me into a dark room and started hitting me on the head and stomach and legs. I stayed in this room for 5 days, naked, with no clothes.’” Angela Woodward’s novel Ink tells the story of the two women who spend their days doing that neat typing. Sylvia…
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A Story from The Future: “Affliction” by Angela Woodward
Affliction I have fled to a floating island of trash to tell you stories of the peaceful north woods. Here’s one—A man woke up early, disturbed by his uneasy conscience, and went down to the stream. It was still so dark, the path appeared as a blacker indentation in the ground, the leaves and sticks and…
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Natural Wonders, a novel by Angela Woodward, reviewed by Katie M. Flynn
Benjy, first slide, please. So begins Angela Woodward’s innovative and allegorical novel about, well, everything. We find ourselves in a lecture hall at some point in the twentieth century. The instructor, known only as Jonathan, whose specialty is “jaw measurement,” is giving a slideshow presentation for his introductory course on the earth and its prehistory…
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