Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Aug 5, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum |Jo Lou |Erica Wright

Reading Lists Each perspective adds a new dimension, complicating what we think we know Novels with multiple points of view aren’t telling one story, but many. They appreciate an important life principle: anybody can be a hero given the right opportunity. Even when focused on the same event, each recollection is different, tinted by each person’s experience and knowledge. These perspectives might corroborate or contradict, add another dimension, form a more complete story, or even alter the...

Nov 1, 2023 | westobserver.com | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

In late October, actors Ron Perlman and Sharon Stone, sitting across from each other in Cedering Fox's home in Studio City, were rehearsing a dramatic reading of Margaret Atwood's short story "Happy Endings."The story attempts to predict what promising or grueling future is to come from John and Mary's relationship. Perlman and Stone swapped portions of the writing, building up their own character arcs out of a story written without one.

Sep 19, 2023 | discoverlosangeles.com | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Join the critically acclaimed author of Bunny for a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fate-and find a connection that is more than skin deep? For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos.

Sep 3, 2023 | eigermonchjungfrau.blog | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

How good to escape summer in the South! How good for the soul to be back in the mountains! How good for the body to be somewhere with paths and trails and sidewalks! About halfway through July I realized I’d been in a reading slump for a long time, most of the year really. I’d been reading, but from compulsion not joy. Books were like ash in my mouth. What I needed was to do the opposite of what I’d been doing—slow down the reading, do some other things, occupy my body more than my mind.

May 10, 2023 | powells.com | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum |Samantha Hunt |Amber Sparks |Gwen E. Kirby

This year for Short Story Month, I wanted to pull together a selection of some of my favorite story collections that teeter on the precipice of the uncanny — books that play with the rules and boundaries of our world and use genre to explore the very-real horrors we face every day.