by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 11, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, interns, or past contributors. In the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale “The Goose Girl” a maid-in-waiting assumes the identity of the...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 10, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Miscellany
Smashing Pumpkins’ music video (photo on right) of “Tonight, Tonight” gives a nod to that early horror/ sci fi moving-picture innovator (photo on left). The poet Zhang Er, one moonless night—while we were watching the 1902 film Le...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 8, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 36: Richard Siken Q. Let’s get a little metaphysical. At the end of your poem, “The Story of the Moon,” you write “one wonders why a story like this exists.” Why do you think stories exist in general, let alone this one? Stories are the way we pass along...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 4, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files
Fairy-Tale Files, published once weekly, feature three variations of a fairy tale chosen by one of Fairy Tale Review’s editors, interns, or past contributors. The Death of Koschei the Deathless is a Slavic folktale originating in Russia which tells of an eternal man...
by Fairy Tale Review | Dec 1, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Books
No. 35: Sequoia Nagamatsu Q. How do you see names, and giving names to things, working in your story, considering most of the things given formal names are actually dead, or not yet living? Names make the dead, the formless tangible. In naming the seeds, Momotaro’s...
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