E. Lily Yu

2 months ago | christandpopculture.com | E. Lily Yu |Brandon Sanderson

Throughout December and January, the CAPC team has compiled a list of our favorite pop culture artifacts from the previous year. Unlike most year-end lists, we don’t claim that these are the “best.” Rather, these are the things that brought us the most joy and satisfaction in the last 12 months. For 2024, our favorite books focused on kids and tech, Christian artistry, small-town mysteries, cheerful apocalypses, manga creators, and more. Overprotection of children in the real world.

Apr 12, 2024 | bostonreview.net | E. Lily Yu

PAINTERS AND POETS HAVE ALWAYS HAD EQUALAUTHORITY TO DARE WHATEVER THEY PLEASE. HoraceIn the port city of New Giordano, whose citizens paraded in the finest fashions first worn by other people, from dialectics to slashed green sleeves, and whose clocktower, it was said, not only told time but told time what to do, there came a day when the wealthiest residents found themselves first discontented, then restive, in spite of the ships that filled the harbor with the fulfillment of their every wish.

Nov 1, 2023 | fantasyliterature.com | Bill Capossere |E. Lily Yu

Jewel Box by E. Lily YuThe pleasure for me in reading E. Lily Yu’s collection of short stories, Jewel Box, was sourced in two of the book’s elements: its what-if premises and its, well, jewel-like language, which glittered precise and edged as any gemstone in a Tiffany’s case. The plots and characters, meanwhile, were more hit and miss for me, which is why I’m not giving it a five.

Oct 24, 2023 | powells.com | E. Lily Yu

The strange, the sublime, and the monstrous confront one another with astonishing consequences in this collection of twenty-two stories from award-winning fabulist E. Lily Yu.In the village of Yiwei, a fallen wasp nest unfurls into a beautifully accurate map. In a field in Louisiana, birdwatchers in the first halting flutters of romance glimpse a Vermilion Flycatcher, and fall. In Nineveh, a judge who prides himself on impartiality finds himself questioned by a mysterious god.

Sep 15, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | E. Lily Yu |Katherine Vaz |Lindsay Hunter |Ariel Lawhon

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