Fairy Tale Review Archive
Once upon a time …
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
Auto/biography, or so I was tolde
she pickes mye foote up by the heele
dragges hir fingre padde
along myn arche
& seith unto me
thow hath a noblewoman’s foote
The Eye of the Cyclone
A poplar tree shakes its wet hair
in front of a mental hospital in Ch’ŏngyangni
Maybe the night wind is blowing—
Appleless
It’s unsettling to meet people who don’t eat apples.
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...
Contributor Kellie Wells Interviewed in The Kalamazoo Gazette
Here's a wonderful interview about fairy tales and writing with Kellie Wells, whose story "Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come" will appear in Fairy Tale...
