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Feb 6, 2025 | 
reactormag.com | Vanessa Armstrong |Ananda Lima |Molly Templeton |Melody Simpson
"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Ananda Lima |V. E. Schwab |Mikhail Bulgakov |Gulf Coast
The embodiment of evil, an irresistible charmer, a trickster, a misinterpreted pitiful soul: I have been obsessed with the many faces of the Devil. In the beginning, I wasn’t exactly sure why I was gravitating to it.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Ananda Lima
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Ananda Lima
I am not a crafty person. I am clumsy, disoriented, spatially confused. I sometimes have to pause and think to identify where left and right are (touching the writing callus on my finger). I need to rotate the map on my phone precisely so that it matches the landmarks I see in order to find my way. I can’t turn things around in my mind. My hands are not steady. I can’t cut a straight line, or even trace along a ruler without messing up.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Ananda Lima
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Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut by award-winning author Ananda Lima.
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
newsroom.ucla.edu | Ananda Lima |Mona Awad |Puloma Ghosh |Victor LaValle
Ananda Lima still sometimes laughs when she says the title of her forthcoming book, “Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil,” out loud. “I was lucky to have my editor behind it,” Lima said. “It’s whimsical but also a nod to the book’s engagement with metafiction and autofiction.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |Ananda Lima
It’s not often that a story at once brings tears to my eyes while giving me chills. The hairs on my arm stood at attention when I first read Ananda Lima’s “Ghost Story.” Her story gave me the chills, but at the same time, it made me want to weep.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Terese Svoboda |Ananda Lima |Jo Lou |Lynn Schmeidler
Short stories can do things novels cannot because they’re short. They’re limber and can dart in and out of close-fitting places. They can be weird and daring in ways that novels cannot always sustain. Joy Williams writes in, “8 Essential Attributes of the Short Story (and one way it differs from a novel), “A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never.” Between the pages I’m not looking for another friend; I’m seeking an experience of bewitchment.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Chuck Tingle |Robert J Sawyer |Ananda Lima |Amy Lee Lillard
Tingle (Camp Damascus) cements his place in horror with this gory romp, which doubles as a love letter to every queer kid who wished for TV characters like themselves and a sharply pointed warning about the state of entertainment and the rise of AI. Misha Byrne is a gay screenwriter hoping to make a career helming the queer shows and movies he wanted to see when he was growing up. He knows how to tell a good story, and he’s got the Oscar nod and a successful ongoing show to prove it.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
sites.lsa.umich.edu | Ananda Lima
Happy New Year! This year is particularly exciting and also a little nerve-wracking for me: my fiction debut (Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, Tor 2024), my weird baby I have worked on for so long, will be out in the world. It is a strange thing how time moves. I have been saying it, seeing the “forthcoming in 2024” in my bio, since 2022. It felt so far away then. And now here we are: 2024. Pre-publication is an intense time of anticipation, hope, worry, and gratitude.
