L.A.-based writer Aimee Bender is one of the world’s masters of magical realism. Her first two books of short stories, “The Girl with the Flammable Skirt” and “Willful Creatures,” both featured ...

If you missed Aimee Bender yesterday, you can listen to her chat with one of my socioaesthetic heroes, the Museum of Jurassic Technology‘s David Wilson, here. Wilson and his museum are the subjects of ...

While at Wordstock 2010, BW grabbed a few minutes with Aimee Bender whose books "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt," "An Invisible Sign of My Own," "Willfull Creatures" and "The Third Elevator" have all ...

Taking her very personal brand of pessimistic magical realism to new heights (or depths), Bender’s second novel (following An Invisible Sign of My Own) careens splendidly through an obstacle course of ...

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 ...