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Kelly Link's (www.kellylink.net) second collection, Magic for Beginners, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine, Salon, BoldType, and PopMatters, among others. It was nominated for various awards, including the Young Lions and Bram Stoker, and won the Locus Award.

Kelly Link and Small Beer Press would like to thank Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (USA) and HarperPerennial (UK) for their willingness to participate in making these stories available online. Due to contractual obligations, "The Faery Handbag" and "Magic for Beginners" are not included in this download.

"Link's stories ... play in a place few writers go, a netherworld between literature and fantasy, Alice Munro and J.K. Rowling, and Link finds truths there that most authors wouldn't dare touch."
-- Time Magazine

"Link's writing shimmers with imagination."
-- Salon

"This is one of the most extraordinary and wonderful books of the year."
—Time Out London,

As with Kelly's first collection, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners is licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercia l-ShareAlike 3.0) license. We encourage readers to take creative license with all of the books on this page and look forward to hearing from readers and remixers. We also encourage readers to support the publishers who are taking part in this grand experiment and, if appropriate, buy the paper editions.

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