Bender became a bestselling novelist with The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, but her new collection returns readers to her real forte: short stories that combine gnomic postmodern prose with ...
An Invisible Sign of My Own opens with an ax. “On my twentieth birthday, I bought myself an ax,” says Mona Gray at the beginning of the first chapter of Aimee Bender’s new novel. “It was the best gift ...
CORVALLIS — Fiction writer Aimee Bender, celebrated for her unique style and use of magical elements in contemporary settings, will read from her recently released novel, “The Particular Sadness of ...