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- ↑ "Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU | The American Reader". theamericanreader.com. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
- ↑ The 10 Best Short Stories You've Never Read, by Arna Bontemps Hemenway, at the Huffington Post ; published July 14, 2014; retrieved January 25, 2015
- ↑ We Read The Year's Best New Sci-Fi — So You Don't Have To, by K. Tempest Bradford, at National Public Radio; published March 31, 2014; retrieved January 25, 2015
- ↑ 2013 in Review by assorted reviewers (Machado reviewed by Gabriel Murray); at Strange Horizons ; published January 6, 2014; retrieved January 25, 2015
- ↑ Double Take: On Carmen Maria Machado, by Sofia Samatar, in the Los Angeles Review of Books ; published April 16, 2015; retrieved March 6, 2019
- ↑ Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado review – powerful debut collection, reviewed by Justine Jordan, in The Guardian ; published January 18, 2018; retrieved March 6, 2019
- ↑ Pleasure Principles: An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado, by Lauren Kane; in The Paris Review ; published October 3, 2017; retrieved March 6, 2019