Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imaginary Museums | 2020 | Nicolette Polek | Buy |
Imaginary Museums is Nicolette Polek’s debut collection, published in 2020. The book contains 26 flash fiction pieces divided into four sections: Miniature Catastrophes, American Interiors, Slovak Sceneries, and Library of Lost Things. The stories are short – some only a page or two – but they pack odd, lingering details into tight spaces.
Polek’s prose is spare and careful, with a quality that reviewers have compared to parables or fables. The settings range from American interiors to Slovak landscapes, and the characters tend to be people caught in small moments of searching – for exits, for lost things, for some kind of understanding. The collection earned strong reviews when it came out and put Polek on the map.