fabulist

• “But because it’s Aleksandar Hemon, the stories extend far beyond the immigrant experience; each one is punctuated with unexpected humor and spins out in fabulist, exhilarating directions, ultimately building to an insightful, often heartbreaking conclusion.”

  Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary

• “Fontaine will feel that Gay the fabulist is a writer whose work the world has let die very willingly indeed.”

  Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation

• “I tend to read very unusual fiction - horror, dark fantasy, slipstream and "fabulist" or "New Weird", and anything that touches on gender, race and sexual issues.”

  INTO THIS MIND -- Opening Chapters

• “He is new to the mystery field, but he has published numerous stories he terms "fabulist" that range from speculative fiction to fantasy to quiet atmospheric horror.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “It is not, to use a rather nebulous term, the "best" book about wine I've read -- that distinction rests with Neal Rosenthal's Reflections of a Wine Merchant -- but it reads like fabulous and fabulist fiction, and that's a real credit to the author, considering it's not fiction at all.”

  LENNDEVOURS:

• “A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon.”

  Manhood for Amateurs: Summary and book reviews of Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon.

• “The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth… despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.”

  The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian: Book summary

• “With an eye ever open for the absurdity of her vocation, Mr. Gottlieb steers us through a thicket of fictions and half-truths about Sarah, many of them perpetrated by the "relentless fabulist" herself.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Actress, Seductress

• “Herzog is at once a romantic and a sceptic, a fabulist and a harsh observer.”

  The Guardian: Werner Herzog, a movie-making genius of performance art

• “The operation of the book puts Moore squarely in the midst of place-obsessed, history-haunted writers such as the novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd, the veteran fabulist Michael Moorcock, and the “psycho-geographer” Iain Sinclair: what might be defined as the contrary tendency in present-day English letters to the Amis/Hitchens/McEwan rationalist headlock.”

  The Sorcery of Alan Moore

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