You turn the pages of "Bliss Montage," Ling Ma's new book of short stories, and find the world you thought you knew shaken up and rearranged. A woman lives in a Los Angeles house that's stocked with ...

Ling Ma wants her writing to speak for itself, but the publishing industry doesn’t work that way. When a series of interviews and events are planned to promote her books, she feels like “an appendage” ...

The women in novelist Ling Ma’s universe are always finding themselves either on the run (escaping pandemic-savaged New York, chasing down former lovers, fleeing into otherworldly portals) or ...

I don’t usually get ensnared by a book. But Ling Ma’s short story collection, Bliss Montage, was different. I started reading it Thanksgiving morning and literally could not stop. There was something ...

Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" — a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China. By early spring of 2020 ...

Shortly before the Apple TV series took the world by storm, Ling Ma's 'Severance' offered an uncanny and unforgettable vision of a memory-fueled zombie apocalypse. Reading time 4 minutes There’s a ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. You turn the pages of "Bliss Montage, ...