Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love, and the novels Liars and Saints, shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize, and A Family Daughter. Meloy’s stories have been published in The New Yorker, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, Meloy was chosen as one of Granta’s Best American Novelists under 35. Her new book is the story collection, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It.For The Week magazine, she named "six books that have changed her idea of 'what’s possible in fiction.'"
One title on her list:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Random House, $15).Read about all six books on Meloy's list.The nested, multiple narratives in Mitchell’s brilliant novel, each written in a different style—19th-century traveler’s journal, ’70s airport novel, sci-fi debriefing/celebrity interview—made me stop writing for a while, because I was so sure I couldn’t do that.
Related: In praise of David Mitchell.
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The Page 69 Test: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It.
The Page 99 Test: Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It.
--Marshal Zeringue
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