Allegra Hyde

Dec 11, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Allegra Hyde

Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado creates sculptural prototypes composed of DIY technologies and found objects, which simultaneously represent speculative devices capable of sustaining life in a blighted, post-apocalyptic future and echo the unfulfilled aspirations of technological progress illustrated in late-twentieth-century sci-fi.

Sep 11, 2023 | brooklynbookfestival.org | Allegra Hyde |Gabino Iglesias |Victor LaValle

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Jun 6, 2023 | harpers.org | Allegra Hyde

From “Dear Employee,” which was published in Issue 80 of Conjunctions. The announcement came in the mail: effective immediately, everyone was assigned a new job. Pay was $0 a week. Hours negotiable. “What?” said Redd, as he sat at his kitchen table and read his letter over again. “But what will happen to my construction contracting company?”There would be no more construction. No more contractors either. There would be no more bankers. No more geometry teachers. No more pet emporium owners.

Mar 30, 2023 | lithub.com | Allegra Hyde

“I hate endings. Just detest them,” said Sam Shepard in an interview with The Paris Review. “Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.”Shepard is hardly alone in his aversion. For writers working in all mediums, ending a work can be the most challenging aspect of the writing process.

Mar 28, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Allegra Hyde |Gabrielle Zevin

by Allegra Hyde ‧ After Eleutheria (2022), Hyde returns to the climate crisis with a collection of short stories that jump between dystopias and parallel universes, seamlessly blending humor and tragedy. The book's dedication—“For who we’ll be”—immediately signposts its fundamental concern: The way humankind (and more specifically, Americans) will navigate an increasingly inhospitable climate. There’s a sublime, filmic quality to the stories, in which Hyde expertly inverts the familiar.