KAREN MARRON
BASS 1998
BASS 1998 is a collection of flash fiction inspired by, inhabiting, and misrepresenting the 1998 installment of the Best American Short Stories anthology series. Each story is in conversation with a piece by the same title in the original BASS 1998. Yet, in its efforts to preserve the 1998 anthology, this collection bends the original stories beyond recognition, replacing them with memories and ghosts from the author’s lives in Israel, New York, and suburban America. (Gold Line Press, 2020)
"By turns tragic and hilarious, BASS 1998 captured the sadness behind our best efforts; though all dreams eventually collapse, Karen Marron's characters will never stop dreaming.”
—Dodie Bellamy
Reviews and Links
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"B.A.S.S. 1998 by Karen Marron: On Textual Continuum and Palimpsest" —Sabine Huynh, SmokeLong Quarterly
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"BASS 1998" — Marcela Sulak, Reading Jewish Fiction
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"BASS 1998; Harlem, 2005" —Visola Wurzer, visolawurzer.com
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Excerpts from BASS 1998 in Halah | Jerusalism
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Gold Line Press X Ricochet Launch (Video)
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BASS 1998 featured on Julie Zuckerman's Literary Modiin (Video)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Letting Go” — The Bellingham Review [print]; Interview
“Appropriate” — Unbroken Journal
“The Way to Dress” — Entropy [journal defunct]
“Questions and Answers” — Queen Mob’s Teahouse
“Perahia” (Tel Aviv, 2001) — Word Riot [journal defunct]
“Ha-Kovshim” — Hobart
“The Hottest Week in the History of Europe” — Sundog Lit
“Who Is Michael Jackson?” — Blunderbuss Magazine
“Girls and Horses” — Drunken Boat
“Diamonds” — Beeswax Magazine [print]
“Crêpe-Café de Paris” — Small Spiral Notebook [journal defunct]
ABOUT
Karen Marron is the author of the fiction chapbook BASS 1998 (Gold Line Press, 2020). She is a creative nonfiction editor and the production editor of The Ilanot Review, and is an alumna of Bar-Ilan University’s graduate program in creative writing. She works as a scientific editor and lives in Queens, NY. Follow her on Twitter @marronglacee.
CONTACT
Twitter: @marronglacee | Email: karenmarron [at] gmail [dot] com