..."This writing catches us off-guard with its immediacy, introducing various glimpses into the con game of identity. Chadwick pirouettes on this thin ice and wins a 10.0 for daring, skill and innovation." David Bromige

Enemy Clothing

Chadwick, Cydney

Literature & Fiction

Five Fingers Press

Cydney Chadwick's recent collection of short fictions mark a change in her work, and a radical deepening of her critique of our edge-of-a-new-millennium culture. Always dark-edged, her stories now have an intense chiaroscuro effect. Her characters are trapped in a ritualized interplay between the empowered and the powerless. And yet, this is not the fiction of fragmentation or divided selves. Instead, it is the fiction of identity held like a closely-guarded secret, barricaded against the assaults of the world.        In Interims, Chadwick's fictions are brave, incisive, and often disturbing.  Her landscapes are rendered in deep focus, are unrelenting and disquieting--forcing the reader to take stock of the subtle and insidious changes in a world that repeatedly isolates and dehumanizes.

Interims

Poetry

3300 Press

Fiction. Stinging, sensual, seductive--Cydney Chadwick's narrative explores the ironies of power, pursuit and fantasy. "Chadwick creates carefully wrought yet relentless examinations into the lives of women as they engage in ongoing dynamics with the voices of people around them"--World Literature Today.

Cut and Run

Contemporary

Texture Press

<p>Fiction. In an earlier era, these mesmerizing vignettes might have been termed "character studies," although that same era might have banned them for their subversive and off-beat fixations. "Character," in Chadwick's writing, usually reveals itself through the filter of simple actions (sneaking into a church, returning to a childhood home) or the filter ofobjects (an eyelash trapped under a contact lens, an inferior lithograph given as a gift). However, these filters never entirely obscure another character, Chadwick's narrator, who slowly reveals her iconoclastic views on art, politics, sex and the after-effects of 60's California culture. "FLESH AND BONE is saturated with mysteries. These stories are sexy, religious, and relentlessly intelligent, as impervious to denial as a finger cut that refuses to heal" -- Barry Gifford.</p>

Flesh and Bone

Avec Books

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Enemy Clothing

Interims

Cut and Run

Flesh and Bone