"STET" is the short story written (almost) entirely in editor's notes (I was going to say more, but maybe you want to read it for yourself so I won't spoil it).
Magic for Liars I have not read (I love magic schools, but I'm worried that would just up my chances of bouncing off it, given my track record with Gailey; though the fact that I did not hate Upright Women makes me cautiously consider it might be worth a try) and had not heard anything about The Echo Wife. Having looked up a writeup of it, I can see how it could be insightful in a horrible way.
I think fundamentally my problem with the Gailey I've read is that I find their constructs (characters, worlds) simplistic and too black and white for my taste. Admittedly, that could be partly because I've mostly read their early work; if they're outgrowing this tendency, that would be reassuring.
(I couldn't tell from Upright Women, because, like you, mostly it felt like it was Not For Me -- just, interested in the various aspects of its premise in pretty much inverse proportion to the parts *I* was interested in as a reader.)
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Magic for Liars I have not read (I love magic schools, but I'm worried that would just up my chances of bouncing off it, given my track record with Gailey; though the fact that I did not hate Upright Women makes me cautiously consider it might be worth a try) and had not heard anything about The Echo Wife. Having looked up a writeup of it, I can see how it could be insightful in a horrible way.
I think fundamentally my problem with the Gailey I've read is that I find their constructs (characters, worlds) simplistic and too black and white for my taste. Admittedly, that could be partly because I've mostly read their early work; if they're outgrowing this tendency, that would be reassuring.
(I couldn't tell from Upright Women, because, like you, mostly it felt like it was Not For Me -- just, interested in the various aspects of its premise in pretty much inverse proportion to the parts *I* was interested in as a reader.)