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This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West is the
second entry in the Divide anthology series attempting to capture
the newness, vastness, territoriality, and sense of transience
alive in the American West. In this collection legends, myths,
tales, omens, folk horror, and science fiction explore the
fantastical, the apocalyptic, the bizarre, the unknown, and the
apocryphal origins and conclusions of life on the occidental side
of the Continental Divide. In this collection, after the ‘what
is’ comes the ‘what will be’, as acclaimed authors and
emerging voices weave tales that push the boundaries of
imagination: Ken Liu takes us to the frontiers of America and China
in a stark tale of perseverance; Kate Bernheimer immerses us in the
fairytale lands of modern celebrity; Benjamin Percy takes us
hunting for deer and connection in eastern Oregon; Yuri Herrera
grants us insight on our future overlords; Tessa Fontaine places us
in-between with a monster and a question; Dominique Dickey chases
familiar ghosts; and Willy Vlautin takes us on the wild ride that
is a winning streak. Accompanied by a foreword from This Side of
the Divide alum, and author of The Forbidden City, Vanessa Hua,
these twenty-five pieces of new lore excavate the beauty, the
uncertainty, the longing, the bitter interactions and stark truths;
the strong people and vivid places that have shaped, and will
continue to shape the West until the end of days.
Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study
to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in
breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel,
Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than 15
other stories designed by Bernheimer Architecture, Snohetta, Rural
Studio, LEVENBETTS, and LTL Architects and many other international
vanguards have created stunning works for this ground breaking
collection of architectural fairy tales. Story by story, Andrew
Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer - a brother and sister team as in an
old fairy tale - have built the ultimate home for lovers of fiction
and design. Snow girls and spinning houses. Paper capes and
engineered hair braids. Resin beehives and infinite libraries. Here
are futuristic structures made from traditional stories, inspired
by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen and The
Little Match Girl, to the Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel and The Juniper
Tree, to fairy tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Joy Williams and
those from China, Japan, Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico. A desire for
story and shelter counts as among our most ancient instincts, and
this dual desire continues to inspire our most imaginative
architects and authors today. Fairy Tale Architecture invites the
reader into a space of wonder, into a new form that will endure
ever after.
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by
some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.
Neil Gaiman, "Orange"
Aimee Bender, "The Color Master"
Joyce Carol Oates, "Blue-bearded Lover"
Michael Cunningham, "The Wild Swans"
These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly
Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary
writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales--the
ultimate literary costume party.
Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed
hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by
visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from
Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" and "The Little Match
Girl" to Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" and "Cinderella" to the
Brothers Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" and "Rumpelstiltskin" to fairy
tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia,
Norway, and Mexico.
Fairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart
the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully
as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This
exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.
Elegant and brutal, the stories in Kate Bernheimer's latest
collection occupy a heightened landscape, where the familiar cedes
to the grotesque and nonsense just as often devolves into terror.
These are fairy tales out of time, renewing classic stories we
think we know, like one of Bernheimer's girls, whose hands of steel
turn to flowers, leaving her beautiful but alone.
Kate Bernheimer is the author of the short story collection
"Horse, Flower, Bird" and the editor of "My Mother She Killed Me,
My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales" and the journal "Fairy
Tale Review."
Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of
fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far
been nonexistent. ""Brothers and Beasts"" offers a new perspective
by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their
artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale
stories. In their personal essays, the contributors - who include
genre, literary, mainstream, and visual media writers - offer new
insight into men's reception of fairy tales. ""Brothers and
Beasts"", the follow-up to Kate Bernheimer's influential ""Mirror,
Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy
Tales"", offers new avenues for research in fairy-tale
studies.Bernheimer has invited many well-known writers to
contribute to this volume, from Gregory Maguire, whose acclaimed
titles include ""Wicked"", ""Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister"",
and ""Son of a Witch"", to Robert Coover, one of the premier
authors of postmodern fiction, to Neil Gaiman, a well-known fantasy
fiction writer and author of graphic novels. With a foreword by
Maria Tatar and an afterword by Jack Zipes, the intimate and
contemplative essays are framed by insight from two leading
fairy-tale studies scholars.""Brothers and Beasts"" proves that men
are deeply influenced by the childhood reading of fairy tales,
despite the fact that these fantastic and memorable tales are often
mistakenly considered to be the domain of women readers and
writers. Students and teachers of fairy-tale and gender studies
along with readers of contemporary literature will enjoy this
accessible and intriguing volume.
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our culture. In poetic narratives, personal histories, and penetrating commentary, the assembled authors bare their soul and challenge received wisdom. Eclectic and wide-ranging, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall is essential reading for anyone who has ever been bewitched by the strange and fanciful realm of fairy tales.
Contributors include: Alice Adams, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Rosellen Brown, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Deborah Eisenberg, Maria Flook, Patricia Foster, Vivian Gornick, Lucy Grealy, bell hooks, Fanny Howe, Fern Kupfer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carole Maso, Jane Miller, Lydia Millet, Joyce Carol Oates, Connie Porter, Francine Prose, Linda Gray Sexton, Midori Snyder, Fay Weldon, Joy Williams, Terri Windling.
"The Writer's Notebook" combines the best craft seminars from the
Summer Writers Workshop's history with craft essays by some of Tin
House's favorite authors and features a list of contributors that
reads like a veritable who's who of contemporary poets and prose
writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, D. A. Powell,
Chris Offutt, and others distill elements of writing and share
insights into the joys and pains of their own work. They explore a
wide range of topics, everything from writing dialogue to the do's
and don'ts of writing about sex. With how-tos, close readings, and
personal anecdotes, "The Writer's Notebook" offers aspiring
wordsmiths advice and inspiration to hone their own craft. Included
is a CD of workshop discussions and panels
A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing-prose, poetry, and
hybrid-from its most significant practitioners and innovators A
variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and
hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream
traditions. Those phrases include experimental, conceptual,
avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream,
avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
writing, alternative, and anti- or new literature. Conceptualisms:
The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid
Writing as Contemporary Art is the first major anthology of writing
that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives
in the early decades of the 21st century. Featuring over 100 pieces
from more than 90 authors, this anthology offers a plethora of
aesthetics and approaches to a wide variety subjects. Editor Steve
Tomasula has gathered poems, prose, and hybrid pieces that all
challenge our understanding of what literature means. Intended as a
collection of the most exciting and bold literary work being made
today, Tomasula has put a spotlight on the many possibilities
available to writers and readers wishing for a glimpse of
literature's future. Readers will recognize authors who have shaped
contemporary writing, as among them Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein,
Jonathan Safran Foer, Shelley Jackson, Nathaniel Mackey, David
Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. Even seasoned readers will
find authors, and responses to the canon, not yet encountered.
Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and
scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature
can live. The text features headnotes to chapters on themes such as
sound writing, electronic literature, found text, and other forms,
offering accessible introductions for readers new to this work. An
online companion presents statements about the work and biographies
of the authors in addition to audio, video, and electronic writing
that can't be presented in print. Visit www.conceptualisms.info to
read more.
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fairies and lives contentedly in the wooded suburbs of Boston; she
grows up to be a successful animator of fairy-tale films. Or does
she? She claims at moments to be a witch in the woods. Like her
sisters, who appeared in Bernheimer's first two novels (The
Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold and The Complete Tales of Merry
Gold), Lucy has a secret, but she is unable to fasten onto anything
but brightness. Novelist Donna Tartt writes, 'Lucy's particular
brand of optimism, blind to its own shadow, is very American--she
is innocence holding itself apart so fastidiously that it becomes
its opposite.' This novel is a perfect end to the Gold family
series, and the perfect introduction, for new readers, to
Bernheimer's enchanting body of work.
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold is a lavishly poetic novel that
recounts through folklore and fairy stories the visionary
obsessions of a passionate young woman. The narrative moves freely
through time and space, uniting Ketzia Gold's early childhood with
her sexual awakenings, creating a dreamscape of haunting vividness.
Young Ketzia inhabits a storybook world of hallucinatory comedy and
terror, surrounded by predatory adults, talking magnolias, and
troll-like siblings. Her childhood romance with talented, brilliant
Adam Brown flowers briefly into a marriage of tenderness and erotic
fervor, but Ketzia cannot escape her own intelligence, and soon
finds herself compelled toward intoxicating self-destruction. Kate
Bernheimer draws upon the motifs of traditional German, Russian and
Yiddish folklore to shape Ketzia's bewildering adventures. The
Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold embroiders a visionary realism in the
manner of Doris Lessing and Clarice Lispector, making Bernheimer's
story a rich tapestry, patterned after childhood longings and the
luxuriant complexity of womanhood.
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