Kate Bernheimer’s new anthology, xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, is now available from Penguin Books. The anthology features new myths from Aimee Bender, Elizabeth Evans, Maile Maloy, Ander Monson, Manuel Muñoz, Aurelie Sheehan, Johanna Skibsrud, Joy Williams, and more. Read more about xo Orpheus at Penguin Books. Read more about the myth of Orpheus in […]
On February 28, 2013, the University of Arizona’s College of Humanities hosted A Night of Fairy Tales: A Very Grimm Reading. Kate Bernheimer moderated the event, which featured multilingual readings by students and professors of the tale popularly known as Little Red Riding Hood — in Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, German, and English. […]
“Which path are you going to take,” asked the wolf, “the path of needles or the path of pins?” No. 2: Joshua R. Helms How has your conception of storytelling changed since you started reading and writing fairy tales? Reading fairy tales has reminded me of the magic and other-worldliness I felt when I […]
A Monthly Journal of Poetics (Issue 30, June 2013—Buch Märchen Issue) The fairy way is a non-representational way; it is a short cut between experience and knowledge. As Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat tells confused little Alice – when she asks how to get to the Queen – “Some go this way. Some go that way. […]
“Which path are you going to take,” asked the wolf, “the path of needles or the path of pins?” No. 1: Don Mee Choi Who is your favorite fairy-tale villain? Why? My favorite is the stepmother who appears in a Korean fairy-tale called K’ong-jwi P’at-jwi (literal translation: Bean Mouse Red-Bean Mouse, referring to the […]
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From the Oz books to David Lynch to Tolkein’s eucatastrophes, Cate Fricke and Fairy Tale Review founder Kate Bernheimer cover the fairy way of writing, of living, and of looking at the world. “Some scholars consider The Wizard of Oz series to be “the first American fairy tale”—I don’t think along those lines – looking […]
Some fairy-tale-esque panels and readings featuring Fairy Tale Review founder and editor Kate Bernheimer and many, many more wonderful, bizarre, and talented writers: 9:00 Thursday, Modern Fairy Tales and Retellings (Kelly Link, Jane Yolen, John Crowley, & Kate Bernheimer) Room 107, Plaza Level 12:00 Thursday, Prose and Verse Consubstantial: The New Mixed Form (Peter Streckfus, Joshua […]
The Fairy Tale Review will at AWP Boston 2013. Visit us at booth R22. Don’t miss Fairy Tale Review founder and editor Kate Bernheimer on the panel “Modern Fairy Tales & Retellings” Thursday from 9-10:15 and reading with FC2 on Saturday from 12-1:15.