Imagine TV’s series portfolio includes Empire on Fox, Genius and Mars on Nat Geo and the upcoming Wu-Tang: An American Saga on Hulu. Her Body and Other Parties By Carmen Maria Machado Graywolf Paperback, 9781555977887, 248 pp. It also was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction, the 2017 Kirkus Prize and the 2017 PEN/Robert Bingham Award. Her Body and Other Parties is as much a thrilling reading experience as it is a powerful and important exploration of women’s lives.

Her Body and Other Parties, published in October 2017 by Gray Wolf Press, was awarded the the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Bard Fiction Prize, along with the Crawford Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, Bisexual Book Award for Fiction, American Booksellers Association’s Indies Choice Book Awards and New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association’s Book of the Year. Welch is repped by CAA, Grandview and Gang Tyre. Welch was a writer-co-producer on FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, writer-co-producer on AMC’s The Terror, a consulting producer on Hulu’s Castle Rock and a staff writer on Ray Donovan. Welch executive produces with Imagine TV’s Brian Grazer, Francie Calfo and Samie Falvey. she’s argentinian (stories are translated from spanish) so you get some insight into that cultural history as well.

prose is less flowery than machado’s but themes are definitely similar. It’s described as a feminist Black Mirror with fairy tale themes, its hours threaded together with a recurring ensemble of female characters. the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enrquez might be up your alley like her body & other parties it’s also a compilation of creepy stories from a feminist/socially conscious perspective. Written by Welch, Her Body is an anthological series staging psychologically vivid tales of women’s fears and desires on landscapes of horror, fabulism, and wild-haired absurdity.

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