Fiction is not a moral beauty contest
Zsuzsi Gartner on writing baroque-n-roll in the age of political sensitivity
If you haven’t read Zsuzsi Gartner, start with her short story collection Better Living Through Plastic Explosives (2011). That was my gateway drug, and it got me for life. Her first novel The Beguiling (2020) is like one of those busy paintings with myriad figures in the style of Bosch or Bruegel that come in multiple panels. There is one viewer/listen…