Nick Levine: What made you want to share this story with the world now?Ĭarmen Maria Machado: That’s a good question. With the book now available in the UK, I called Machado at her Philadelphia home to find out how she approached writing such a powerful and pain-filled memoir. “If you need this book,” she writes at the start, “it is for you”. She splits her story into genre-melding shreds of recollection – ‘Dream House as Famous Last Words’, ‘Dream House as Meet the Parents’, ‘Dream House as Cosmic Horror’, and so on – which combine to create something sad, scary and affecting. In the Dream House is notable because it documents abuse within a queer relationship, something our heteronormative society rarely confronts it’s completely vital, too, because Machado writes with devastating honesty and creativity. Now, she’s written a haunting and incredibly important piece of nonfiction, In the Dream House: A Memoir, in which she recalls the abusive relationship she endured while studying at the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Carmen Maria Machado has already made her mark as a writer of fiction: her horror-driven short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the prestigious US National Book Award and is being developed into a series by FX.
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