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	Spotlight: Aimee Bender - P.A.W. Print - Philadelphia Arts Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the allegorical worlds of Bender's stories, amputation and abnormality are not only assumed and taken for granted, but are embraced as modes of accessing the emotional scars of her characters.
		Bender explains that the element of fantasy in her work enables her to reveal more about human nature than if she were to write in a strictly literal sense.
		Bender is currently at work on her second novel and a new collection of short stories.
	home.comcast.net /~philadelphiawriters/articles/10_2004/bender.htm (1222 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Aimee Bender
		Aimee Bender: There's a story by Richard Brautigan called "The Weather in San Francisco," and I think it's a perfect story in its way.
		Bender: There are edits Murakami could have made with that book that I think would have made people happier with it; there are parts of the story where I still don't know what it's supposed to mean — he could have let it drift up to the surface of consciousness a tiny bit more.
		Bender: The first one I would recommend would be Cosmicomics because it's so light and funny and deep and great, but I think I like his stories better than his novels, generally.
	www.powells.com /interviews/bender.html (3416 words)

	Bold Type: Aimee Bender
		Aimee Bender's stories are a breath of fresh air.
		Playful, inventive, and full of surprises, her modern fairy tales are an absolute joy to read.
		In this issue of Bold Type you'll find two stories from The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and one new one, titled "Bull," which is actually a sequel to a story in the collection titled "The Ring." In addition, an interview with Aimee Bender sheds light on her influences and inspirations.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0798/bender (159 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Aimee Bender
		She lived in an odd little town where the hospital was made entirely of blue glass and the hardware store was run by a former math teacher who wore big wax numbers around his neck to indicate his relative state of mind, with 47 indicating ecstasy and 2 indicating suicidal depression.
		The collection demonstrated Bender's truly remarkable gift for language, but the plots and people felt annoyingly contrived, bizarre for the sake of being bizarre, as artificially peculiar as an in-your-face TV commercial designed to sell you sodas by catching you off guard with cheap irony and hokey wackiness.
		That'd be compelling enough, but the enterprise is further blessed by Bender's new-found ability to match her fantastic imagination with fully developed characters and a plot that moves beyond mere quirkiness to offer a compelling exploration of death and desire.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/07.27.00/bender-0030.html (689 words)

	TAR Reviews WILLFUL CREATURES by Aimee Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I was introduced to Aimee Bender’s writing by my dear friend Jenny, a Los Angeles native who has known the author as a family friend for many years.
		Aimee Bender is standing at the podium at the head of the room.
		Bender teaches us, however, that if you live on a diet of these, you will either starve or poison yourself.
	www.adirondackreview.homestead.com /book48.html (867 words)

	Aimee Bender Willful Creatures Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Bender's precise language makes the fantastic feel utterly real, and she evokes a complex mixture of joy, sorrow and laughter.
		Bender writes the best kind of fairy tales and fables, easily read nuggets with a surreal surface and a universal appeal.
		Bender's pharmacological high is addictive because it hooks up to the reader's own longing for something more than real, something ultra-real.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/bender-willful_creatures.htm (721 words)

	Powell's Books - Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender
		Bender is a brilliant stylist, using language with the nimble grace of a magician.
		Bender's surrealism is never gratuitous in the fantastical yet truthful stories of this singular collection.
		Aimee Bender is the author of the short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own.
	www.powells.com /biblio/0385501137 (952 words)

	Aimee Bender's _ Willful Creatures _ reviewed by Alexis M. Smith
		There are “empty spaces” in Bender’s stories, but they are better described as gaps—gaps between “the real” and “the surreal.” We are constantly drawn to the difference between Bender’s stories and more traditional narratives, with the startling realization that profound emotion flows freely in that space, never favoring one side over the other.
		It is the common descriptor because the surreal elements of Bender’s work demand attention in a way that her solid similes and rhythmic cadences don’t.
		Bender’s stories are an out-of-aesthetic experience for us because we have been trained to lose ourselves in narratives.
	www.tarpaulinsky.com /Reviews/Willful_Creatures.html (808 words)

	Bending Perceptions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As a graduating senior from UC San Diego in the spring of 1991, it may have never occured to Aimee Bender that before she would have turned 30 she would be a successful author and doing what she truly loved.
		Bender: It was Writing 37, 39A, 39B and then 31 is the one I taught the most, maybe four quarters, which is the intro to fiction, creative writing.
		Aimee Bender will read and sign her book on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 3 p.m.
	www.newu.uci.edu /archive/1998-1999/fall/981012/q-981012-Bender.html (1106 words)

	Amazon.com: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories: Books: Aimee Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bender's is a unique and compassionate voice, and her debut is a string of jewels.
		Aimee Bender's stories are perhaps some of the strangest being published in contemporary literature.
		Aimee Bender's, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, is successful at being humorously witty and profound at the same time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385492162?v=glance (2005 words)

	Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender \| PopMatters Book Review
		If stepping into an Aimee Bender story is like entering a dream, then reading a book of her short stories is the equivalent of slipping into an alternate universe.
		Bender's stories are brief and airy, but by no means do you feel bloated and unsatisfied after their consumption.
		Bender is at her best when she steps into the surreal, where she laves us in metaphor, drawing us into a universe delineated by her words.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/w/willful-creatures-stories.shtml (1002 words)

	Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender - review
		Aimee Bender's stories are the contemporary descendents of those of the Brothers Grimm, with their surrealism laid on top of human desire and need.
		To Bender, contemporary life is as mysterious as words made of xenon, and yet she manages to give us glimpses of raw emotional truth.
		Aimee Bender is a graduate of the MFA program for creative writing at U.C. Irvine, California.
	mostlyfiction.com /scifi/bender.htm (828 words)

	Aimee Bender - QuickTopic free message board hosting
		Bookslut points us to an Aimee Bender story from her new collection, which is reviewed here.
		Bender's previous story in BRIDGE, "Jinx", was awarded a Pushcart Prize, and this one is another singular glimpse into her fictional world.
		I recently finished Aimee Bender's The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and I was quite taken with it.
	www.quicktopic.com /28/H/BqUZsQUqPcdt2 (511 words)

	Bookslut \| An Interview with Aimee Bender
		Bender conjures up a surreal stew full of fairy tale scenarios and injured hearts, she seasons her stories with just enough reality to get to the emotion of the reader.
		Bender’s first collection of short-stories The Girl in the Flammable Skirt seemed to open doors for other authors whose stories were just as ethereal.
		Bender explores the cruel reality of abusive relationships, whether they’re driven by suicidal girlfriends, higher spiritual beings or adult-size captors.
	www.bookslut.com /features/2005_09_006523.php (3447 words)

	village voice > books > Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures by Jessica Winter
		Aimee Bender's bracing first novel, An Invisible Sign of My Own, spent an anxious, mordant season with an OCD-afflicted math teacher who's also a chronic quitter, a state of world denial perhaps inherited from her father, laid up all her life with a never defined illness that traps him in a limbo of existential deferral.
		In the 15 stories that make up Willful Creatures, Bender again enumerates the comforts and perils of emotional tunnel vision and compulsive private games, but she leans much harder on the airy humor and intimations of the grotesque that daubed her novel.
		An occasionally inspired palate cleanser, Willful Creatures is lightest on its feet when it resists sentimentalizing its freaks and geeks: Bender moves most gracefully among them when her eyes are dry.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0531,bwinter,66521,10.html (242 words)

	Amazon.com: An Invisible Sign of My Own: Books: Aimee Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aimee Bender's funny, delicately shaded first novel is a constant delight, even at its most warped.
		Clever, original and written with brio and eloquence, Bender's first novel (after the praised short story collection The Girl with the Flammable Skirt) may not appeal to every taste, but those who respond to its depressed, quirky heroine in her anguished search for safety from life's disasters will feel instant love.
		In a satisfying denouement in which Bender brings the narrative full circle with astonishing dexterity, Mona discovers how to connect and live fully, and helps Lisa to navigate her own way through a frightening world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385492235?v=glance (2679 words)

	Felicia C. Sullivan » Blog Archive » Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures
		Although I am frolicking through Cheever-land (yes, I will finish that enormous tome), I do have to remark that it was blissful and refreshing, as always, to read an Aimee Bender story, and to be gifted with an entire collection of her masterful prose.
		Part Paley, part Barthelme, Bender’s latest effort, Willful Creatures is achieved and flawless and presents her misunderstood, sad, hopeful and sometimes hopeless, pitiful denizens (some of which operate in this world and others in a captivating world all of their own, of Bender’s fantastic invention) with utter affection and sincerity.
		And you feel the same sorrow for a “motherfucker” and his latest conquest, that famous actress with that Hollywood smile, who, after their departure refuses to smile, opts to stay in her house because “Desire is a house.
	feliciasullivan.com /?p=66 (614 words)

	Professor Profile: Aimee Bender
		Bender is one of those rare teachers that cares about what everyone has to say and lets you say it.
		Aimee is very interactive with our learning, and tries very hard to help us out with papers and deadlines.
		Professor Bender is passionate about her topics, yet in a relaxed manner.
	www.senatecourseguide.com /profile.asp?Professor=187 (752 words)

	Ryan Sloan interviews Aimee Bender
		Aimee Bender is late for her trip to Barbados.
		Bender's debut collection of stories The Girl with the Flammable Skirt two years ago and felt she had been given permission to write modern fairy tales.
		I picked up her new novel, An Invisible Sign of My Own, shortly thereafter and I admit here to equal parts admiration and envy: Aimee Bender is ridiculously gifted.
	www.mashmagazine.com /01jan/janbook.html (1824 words)

	Aimee Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aimee Bender received her MFA from the University of California,Irvine.
		With her provocative collection of short stories, THE GIRL IN THE FLAMMABLE SKIRT (Doubleday, 1998), Bender made one of the most exciting literary debuts of the season.
		Bender's stories have appeared in GRANTA, GQ, STORY, THE ANTIOCH REVIEW, and numerous other publications.
	www.whitman.edu /visiting_writers/archives/AimeeBender.html (128 words)

	Salon.com Audio \| Aimee Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aimee Bender's stories are modern fairy tales, influenced by such varied writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Italo Calvino, Carol Churchill, Oliver Sacks, James Baldwin, and Garcia Marquez.
		"[Bender] aims to be sneakily incendiary and often succeeds: many of these stories are as catchy as that title, with a winning cheekiness." -New York Times
		Bold Type features an interview and a short story by Aimee Bender.
	archive.salon.com /audio/2000/10/05/bender/print.html (230 words)

	Interview with Amy Bender : interviewed by Ryan Boudinot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of short stories published last summer.
		Aimee Bender: The three parts - I must admit it was the editor's original idea but I liked it because three is such a good mythic number.
		I had them loosely titled Loss, Rage and Magic but it didn't totally work because the mermaid story isn't rageful at all and a lot of the stories have some of all three of those things in them, so making up the mini titles felt false.
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/498 (2377 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Aimee Bender
		Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms.
		This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads.
		Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=1924 (301 words)

	Article: A Conversation Between Writers: Benjamin Rosenbaum and Aimee Bender
		Even when it's not explicitly fantastic, it's too strange to be comfortably normal: a man who loves mathematics so much he wears a different large wax number around his neck every day; a kindergarten teacher who eats soap to wean herself from desire and brings axes to show-and-tell; and so on.
		She is somebody who is very far out there in terms of non-naturalistic storytelling in fantasy & science fiction, as well as being stylistically accomplished and inventive.
		There are certain Kelly Link and Aimee Bender stories which you could switch the names on and fool their fans, I expect.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030303/conversation.shtml (3411 words)

	Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism/AIMEE BENDER: AN INTERVIEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		WHEN STUDENTS of magical realism are asked to name their favorite North American magical realists, invariably Aimee Bender takes place among the top five most cited.
		Her stories, among the best along the fringe of literary writing, are perverse, honest, emotional and frightening even as Bender's insouciant humor raises eyebrows.
		Aimee and I discussed her sense of humor and her wending in and out of magical realist territory in a recent interview.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/margin/BenderQA.html (2349 words)

	Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism/INTRODUCING AIMEE BENDER
		Aimee Bender's stories have appeared in Granta, GQ, Story, The Paris Review, Fence, McSweeney's Harper's, The Antioch Review, and several other publications.
		NPR has also featured her on "This American Life." She is also the author of An Invisible Sign of My Own.
		Bender is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize for 2002, and is at work on a new novel and new stories.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/margin/Bender.html (280 words)

	Canned Coffee - Dydo — "Coffee Milk" - Aimee Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		First off, there is a brown cow on the front with perky ears, the kind of cow that I could be friends with.
		That is part of the coffee's taste: a delicate quality or a fragile, fake sweetness, and the can will protect it well.
		Aimee Bender is most recently the author of Willful Creatures, but in Japan, you can find her first book, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and her second will be translated soon.
	www.cannedcoffee.com /coffee/authors/aimee_bender/dydo_milk_coffee_1 (324 words)

	TARPAULIN SKY FICTION: Aimee Bender, "The Neighborhood"
		Even though he never plays with them again, they are now fixed to his body for years.
		Aimee Bender is the author of 2 books, The Girl In The Flammable Skirt which was a NY Times Notable Book of 1998, and An Invisible Sign of My Own, an L.A. Times Pick for 2000.
		She lives in L.A. and teaches at U.S.C. Visit Aimee Bender's website Flammableskirt.com
	www.tarpaulinsky.com /Spring03/ABTheNeighborhood.htm (963 words)

	USC College : Aimee Bender
		USC College > Faculty > Department Rosters > English > Aimee Bender
		Professor Bender's stories are a breath of fresh air.
		Playful, inventive, and full of surprises, her modern fairy tale, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, earned a New York Times Notable Book award.
	www.usc.edu /assets/college/faculty/old_profiles/119.html (123 words)

	Aimee Bender Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Aimee Bender Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		The Secret Society of Demolition Writers is both an intriguing game and an excellent collection in its own literary right, a combination that will certainly make it the talk of the book world.
		by Carlson Ron Bender Aimee, Dixon Stephen, Estrin Marc, Gran Sara, Koch Dave, Kolitsky Joy, Melrod Josh, Nissen Thisbe,...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Bender,Aimee (302 words)

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