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    Ling Ma, Isaac Butler and Morgan Talty among National Book Critics Circle Award winners

    by Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2023 5 minutes
    "Night of the Living Rez: Stories" by Morgan Talty.

    Ling Ma, Morgan Talty, Boris Dralyuk and Isaac Butler are among the winners of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Awards announced during a ceremony Thursday night at the New School in New York City.

    Ma earned the prize in fiction for "Bliss Montage: Stories," her debut story collection, filled with offbeat stories that nod to her knack for surrealism: A woman living with all of her ex-boyfriends; friends popping pills that make them invisible; a yeti who seduces a woman to the smooth soundtrack of Janet Jackson.

    "Ma rides a good concept when she finds one," Hillary Kelly wrote in a Los Angeles of "Bliss Montage," a followup to "," her widely acclaimed dystopian debut novel. She "pulls at the flesh of this juicy morsel until it

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