Surrealism is never a gimmick in Bliss Montage instead, it seeps nonchalantly into ordinary life: a woman and her husband live in a mansion with her hundred ex-boyfriends a woman sleeps with a yeti another falls pregnant and vacations to Miami with a virile baby arm hanging out of her. “This book is a lot warmer and more mammal-like.” “ Severance feels a little bit cooler and more reptilian to me,” Ma tells me. By comparison, she wrote most of her new short-story collection, Bliss Montage, in creative bursts during the pandemic, crafting speculative premises out of her most anxiety-laced dreams. She started Severance while working as a Playboy fact-checker in 2012, drafting it over several summers and taking inspiration from her string of thankless office jobs. When the author’s critically acclaimed debut, Severance - a wry crossover between office satire and mass-infection dystopia - came out in 2018, Ma never anticipated the second wave of attention it would get a year later when dystopia became reality. Photo-Illustration: The Cut Photo: Anjali Pinto, Courtesy of FSG
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