Magic for Beginners

Magic for Beginners is Kelly Links eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed follow-up to her beloved debut, Stranger Things Happen. Cumulatively weirder and wiser (The Believer), this new story collection riffs on zombies, marriage, witches, superheroes, haunted convenience stores, and weekly apocalyptic poker parties, among other things. Links work is truly unique. Time Out New York called her stories cross-genre gems, and her admirers in the literary communityfrom Peter Straub and Karen Joy Fowler to Alice Sebold and Michael Chabonreflect the amazing range that makes her style so special. Call it kitchen sink magical realism: Fantastic and bizarre but funny and down to earth, there is something for everyone in Magic for Beginners..

KELLY LINK’s stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, Conjunctions, The Dark, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Nebula Award and an NEA Literature Fellowship. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.