In this episode, I talk to Torrey Peters about her story 'Stag Dance' from the collection of the same name.  

Torrey Peters’ first novel, Detransition, Baby won the PEN/ Hemingway Award 2022 and was shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book. A Times Top Ten bestseller, it was longlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her follow-up Stag Dance is a quartet of short stories that explore trans life past, present and future.

Episode notes:

• William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity
• Strunck and White, The Elements of Style

Book recs:

• Halldor Laxness, Independent People (trans. J. A. Thompson)
• Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling (trans. Anne McLean)
• João Guimarães Rosa, Vastlands: The Crossing (Alison Entreckin)

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