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 for originating definitive versions; that’s a gesture that weirdly obliterates a more expansive sense of history.”
“[The fairy way is] domestic horror. It’s the miniature made grotesque. I mean, David Lynch writes fairy tales. I do think that horror, Gothic, children’s books, Noir and the Noir novel, detective novel, Romance novel, avant-garde literature, language poetry—film from Dogme scripts to Wes Andersen to Quentin Tarantino—all of these forms find their techniques in fairy tales.”
“Fairy tales are like a whole constellation in space, they are a space.”
Read the full interview on Something to Read for the Train, here.
