Fairy Tale Review Archive
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The practice of retelling fairy tales in the form of literary fiction is, if not quite hallowed, certainly established. The great Angela Carter’s revelatory 1979 story collection, “The Bloody Chamber” — a brocaded work of heady sensuality, intelligence and violence — remains the benchmark, but Kate Bernheimer’s Fairy Tale Review and the several excellent Bernheimer-edited anthologies spun off from it carry the standard forward. Those are just some of the more overt homages; Western literature owes as much to fairy tales as it does to Greek myth and the Bible.
-The New York Times
Scheherazade
He made his choice. He still speaks, still lives.
Leatherman
He rarely spoke, and never revealed his identity or the reason for his endless trek.
To Take a Woman’s Voice
Because she cannot speak, the prince views her as a favorite pet
Sold Out
Hard to believe the day has come, but copies of back issues of Fairy Tale Review are now sold out. The current issue (The Red Issue) is still...
NPR/Weekend Edition and Fairy Tales
Lynn Neary speaks to writers Kate Bernheimer and Neil LaBute about fairy tales.
The Changeling by Joy Williams
We are delighted to announce that you can now read Fairy Tale Review Press's 30th Anniversary Edition of The Changeling by Joy Williams as an ebook,...
Petition to the National Book Foundation
OCTOBER 24, 2010 Petition to the National Book Foundation: Maria Tatar and Kate Bernheimer Are on a Mission To the National Book Foundation, We...
How Nazis Used Fairy Tales
Interesting article from the Telegraph on how Nazis "injected" re-fashioned fairy tales with propaganda. The result? Little Red Riding Hood's cloak...
Fairy-Tale Book Repository
Fairy Tale Review announces its newest program, a Fairy-Tale Book Repository. We seek to collect as many fairy-tale books as possible, books known...
Fairy Tale Review Congratulates Lily Hoang
Fairy Tale Review congratulates Lily Hoang, author of Changing, which has just received a 2009 PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
Review of The Violet Issue
From a review in Marvels & Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. "This issue presents an exceptionally interesting collection of...
Interview with Fairy Tale Review Founder & Editor
FC2's new podcast is an interview with Fairy Tale Review editor Kate Bernheimer. To hear more about contemporary fairy tales as an innovative art...
Interview with Joy Williams by bookslut.com
Interview with Joy Williams (PDF)
Joy Williams to be Inducted into The American Academy of Arts & Letters
Joy Williams, whose novel The Changeling is forthcoming from Fairy Tale Review Press in May, will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts...
The Changeling
A post by Dwight Garner on the New York Times book blog about The Changeling's sad fate in 1978, and its triumphant reissue this May, at the above...
