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While reader-centred texts have been criticized as undemocratic and exclusionary, the author instead argues that they empower readers, granting them equal authority with the author. She shows that reading these texts is a communal activity, anti-hierarchical and resolutely democratic.

Part journal, part meditation on aesthetics, part dreamscape, this title investigates experience, identity, beauty, and sexuality, while provocatively complicating such distinctions as writing versus revision and imagination versus observation. It is a narrative of and about language, a narrative of and about narrative.

Acerbic wit and luminous prose mark these short stories, while sickness and death lurk amidst the humour. Characters find their footing in these bizarre scenarios and manage to fall into redemption and rebirth. Museum of the Weird invites you into its hallways, then beguiles, bewitches, and reveals a writer who has discovered a manner of storytelling all her own.