![]() ![]() “However you charm people in the world, you should do so on the page,” wrote Mary Karr. Hum goes the tea kettle, clank goes the spoon, and you are propped on your elbow listening, as if around a campfire. Her apartment is a welcoming vintage chic and her fashion is inspired as ever (part girly, part goth), but to sit and be with Carmen is chiefly to be in relationship with a voice. ![]() Everyone we know seems to be having bad dreams right now. “Look how scary! It gives me bad dreams.” I empathize. “Look,” Carmen says, opening the glossy pages to an image of a girl and an enormously frightening tentacle. Some way of mapping a feeling or bringing intensity.” On the table, beside the drawing supplies and her wife’s several tarot decks, lies a copy of Emily Carroll’s graphic novel Through the Woods. “I think there is something that happens with drawing that I’d like to explore. “I’m thinking about drawing,” she says, running her fingers over a notebook of crisp, heavy stock and a package of new drawing pencils. When I arrive-I live in the same neighborhood full of cracked sidewalks and leafy oaks-Carmen greets me wearing a fuchsia satin turban and shows me into the kitchen. ![]() Carmen Maria Machado lives on the first floor of an old Victorian building in West Philadelphia. ![]()
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