Is Severance based on a book? Discover the surprising answer and explore how the Apple TV+ series differs from Ling Ma’s ...

After Ling Ma got laid off from her office job ... familiar from Ma’s lauded comic-dystopian debut novel, 2018’s “Severance,” in which publishing drudge Candace keeps updating her ...

Ling Ma’s prescient 2018 debut novel, “Severance” (no relation to the popular Apple TV Plus show), was set in a world where a virus turns people into zombies fated to repeat on a loop an ...

The women in novelist Ling Ma’s universe are always finding themselves ... since Ma published her Kirkus Prize-winning debut novel, Severance, about an apocalyptic pandemic that ravages the ...

Ling Ma wants her writing to speak for itself ... As I was reading Bliss Montage, I thought to myself, “if Severance predicted the pandemic, which of these stories will come true next?” ...

Assistant professor Ling Ma packed the Seminary Co-Op for an intimate reading from her novel, “Severance,” which was named a “New York Times” notable book in 2018. Casually, almost shyly, Ma said she ...

Ling Ma’s own “Bliss Montage” is a surreal ... The eight wily tales mark the return of an author whose inventive debut, “Severance,” urgently announced her as a writer worth watching.

In “Peking Duck,” one of the standout stories in Ling Ma’s collection ... This much feels familiar from Ma’s lauded comic-dystopian debut novel, 2018’s “Severance,” in which ...