My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy TalesKate Bernheimer The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism. 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. |
Contents
ALISSA NUTTING The Brother and the Bird | |
KEVIN BROCKMEIER A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin | |
SHELLEY JACKSON The Swan Brothers | |
JOYELLE MCSWEENEY The Warm Mouth | |
SARAH SHUNLIEN BYNUM The Erlking | |
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM The Wild Swans | |
RIKKIDUCORNET Green | |
CHRISADRIANTeague OKane and the Corpse | |
JIM SHEPARD Pleasure Boating in Lituya | |
KATHRYN DAVIS BodywithoutSoul | |
KELLIE WELLS The Girl the Wolf the Crone | |
MARJORIE SANDOR The White | |
RABIH ALAMEDDINE A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper | |
NEIL GAIMAN Orange | |
FRANCESCA LIABLOCK Psyches Dark Night | |
KATHERINE VAZ What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body Is Gone | |
KAREN BRENNAN The Snow Queen | |
LUCY CORINEyes of Dogs | |
MICHAEL MARTONE A Bucket of Warm Spit | |
KELLY LINK Catskin | |
MICHAEL MEJIA Coyote Takes Us Home | |
KIMADDONIZIO Ever After | |
Acknowledgements | |
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