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THE PRINCESS OF HERSELF
STORIES Pelekinesis Press

"I love this book. The writer is always visible as one of the characters, trying to sort out reality and memory. She keeps collapsing her own life into her stories and in doing so creates a wonderful picture of the way our minds actually work. Everything merges and the act of writing and remembering is the real subject here."
--- Laurie Anderson

"These stories depict a world of aging professionals in upstate New York, who’ve stayed too long at the party. Having moved from Manhattan, they’re marooned in their quaint towns. Roberta Allen’s short, sharp, dreamlike prose captures the oddness of this bardo-state with all its beauty, ambivalence and pain."

-- Chris Kraus,
author of I Love Dick & the literary biography After Kathy Acker

Bomb Magazine

Writing Anti-Stories: An Interview with Roberta Allen

by John Zinsser

"When we really like a book, it's often because its rhythm is similar to our own—to our heartbeat, our breathing, the way we walk. I think that's what draws us to certain writers and not to others even though we know they are great."

Roberta Allen

Roberta Allen's latest collection of stories, The Princess of Herself (Pelekinesis), offers us a lens into human distortion. In humorous and sharply clipped prose, she takes us through a landscape of characters squarely in denial of who they are. Allen's own life and career trajectory have exposed her to a variety of people, places, and modalities. Born in New York Cityto a Russian gambler father, she grew up in the Ansonia Hotel long before its rooms were converted to condos. She resided

THE PRINCESS OF HERSELF STORIES Pelekinesis Press