Aimee Bender is an Americannovelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters. A close friend of Alice Sebold (both graduated from the distinguished creative writing MFA program at UC Irvine), she also teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California. A native of Los Angeles, Bender is influenced by the French Surrealists and the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Like those writers, her work probes the subconscious and questions and subverts the importance of realism as the dominating style of American Literature. A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Alice Sebold (b. ... In the United States, a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is a terminal graduate degree in an area of visual, plastic, literary or performing arts typically requiring two to three years of study beyond the bachelor level. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA; a significant portion of the campus falls into the neighboring community of Newport Beach. ... Doheny Library. ... Italo Calvino, on the cover of Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) (pronounced ) was an Italian writer and novelist. ...
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External links
Aimee Bender website
UCI Profile
The Bat Segundo Show #16 (podcast interview)
Corporeal Reality radio conversation between Aimee Bender and Museum of Jurassic Technology curator David Wilson
AimeeBender: There's a story by Richard Brautigan called "The Weather in San Francisco," and I think it's a perfect story in its way.
Bender: There are edits Murakami could have made with that book that I think would have made people happier with it; there are parts of the story where I still don't know what it's supposed to mean he could have let it drift up to the surface of consciousness a tiny bit more.
Bender: The first one I would recommend would be Cosmicomics because it's so light and funny and deep and great, but I think I like his stories better than his novels, generally.
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