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Terri
Windling
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(3/29/04 9:55 am)
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Endicott Studio
The Winter 2004 edition of the Endicott Studio web site is now on-line. We've got brand new poetry by Jane Yolen, Charles de Lint, Kim Antieau, Mario Milosevic, Theodora Goss, and Ari Berk (as well a reprint poem from Jane); and articles on Russian fairy tales (Helen Pilinovsky), Finnish folklore (Ari Berk), and Spanish Carnavale (Alan Weisman). The featured story this edition is by Emma Bull; and the featured artist is the Anglo-Norwegian fiber artist Yuli Somme. The site's URL:
www.endicott-studio.com
New book reviews by Helen Pilinovsky (along with some further recommendations from Jane Yolen and me) can be found on Endicott's new Mythic Arts Bulletin Board:
pub31.ezboard.com/bendicottstudioformythicarts
I hope you find the new edition of the site worth the wait.
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Gregor9
Registered User
(4/7/04 7:08 am)
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Re: Yamabushi
Richard,
I only just saw your post. I, too, have a Yamabushi storying coming
out--in Terri and Ellen's The
Faery Reel. Congrats.
GF
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(4/7/04 3:41 pm)
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Re: Yamabushi
Thanks, Greg. Another reason for me to score a copy of The
Faery Reel.
Rich Horton was thinking it odd that he'd discovered another tengu/yamabushi
story just after he read mine (this one by Kara Dalkey). Must be
something in the air.
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Gregor9
Registered User
(4/8/04 2:36 pm)
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Re: Yamabushi
Richard,
Clearly, it's fertile territory. Maybe we're starting to feel as if we've mined some western stories enough for awhile. For me it was definitely a stretch, an attempt to capture a particular tone, and (hopefully) add it to my lexicon of literary legerdemaine.
GF
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(4/9/04 9:13 am)
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Re: Yamabushi
The
Faery Reel will be out from Viking in June, with wonderful illustrations
by Charles Vess.
The new issue of Realms
of Fantasy has a Gallery article devoted to Ancient Spirit,
Modern Voice, the exhibition Charles and his wife Karen are curating
for the Defoor Centre in Atlanta, Georgia (running in connection
with the Mythic Journeys conference), along with text by Ari Berk.
I think my Folkroots article on "magical marriage" tales
(like East of the Sun, West of the Moon) is also in this issue.
The issue is out now, but I haven't seen it yet...
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rosyelf
(4/13/04 9:22 am)
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upcoming publications
Two things for the near future, promised by Amazon. The first is
The
Musicians of Bremen and Other Animal Tales From Grimm, by Doris
Orgel and illustrated by Bert Kitchen. This is due out on September
1st. Before that, in July, another treat, especially for fans of
anything Scandinavian: Icelandic Folktales and Legends, retold by
Jacqueline Simpson.This book has been out of print for quite some
time-I had a copy from a library YEARS AND YEARS ago-the tales were
great, as was Simpson's introduction.
So much to read, never enough time. Sigh.
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(5/5/04 6:55 am)
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Re: upcoming publications
The
Green Man anthology has just come out in trade paperback. However
I've just learned that its sequel, The
Faery Reel, orginally scheduled by Viking for July publication,
has been been pushed back to August, I don't know why. It
's now got an August 6 release date, so copies will start appearing in late July.
Edited by: Terri Windling at: 6/10/04 7:14 am
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riggsbombay
Registered User
(5/16/04 11:23 am)
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future fairy tale
"The
Adventures of the Imagination of Periphery Stowe" is a new release
in the (future fairy tale) genre...
Periphery
Stowe
A highly original book that dares to claim itself as the fairy tale for generations to come.
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Kel
Registered User
(5/26/04 6:40 pm)
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Subject
Wow- This is an amazing site! There are so many talented authors and the SurLaLune site is gorgeous. The site must have been so much work but it looks great.
I hope you don't mind a dumb kid lurking around to see what books
are being released.
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(6/17/04 9:52 am)
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Myths
This one's more in the realm of myth/legend and the collective unconscious
than fairy tales, but, however you classify it, I have a story coming
up in the August _Realms
of Fantasy_, called "The Right God." Should be out
very soon.
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(6/19/04 9:13 am)
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Re: Myths
I look forward to reading it, Richard!
The Summer 2004 edition of the Endicott Studio web site is now online,
at www.endicott-studio.com.
There are articles on Animal Bride and Bridegroom tales by me and
Midori Snyder, a new selchie story by Laurie J. Marks, mythic art
by the extraordinary Jaqueline Morreau, fairy tale poetry from Jane
Yolen, Emma Hardesty, and Kim Antieau, and a poem about Bigfoot
from Mario Milosevic.
Edited to add: oops, I just saw that this was already announced in a separate thread. Sorry for the repetition!
Edited by: Terri Windling at: 6/19/04 9:14 am
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(6/19/04 7:55 pm)
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on fairies and Pre-Raphaelites...
I just finished Elizabeth Hand's new novel, Mortal
Love. Wow. I highly, highly, highly recommend it.
You can read a great review of the novel by Helen here:
p090.ezboard.com/fendicottstudioformythicartsfrm7.showMessage?topicID=4.topic
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Don
Registered User
(6/22/04 6:38 am)
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Fairy Tales and Feminism/Arabian Nights
Considering the 2 million pre-publication orders for President Clinton's
My Life, I thought it couldn't hurt to note the publication
this coming September of Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches.
More info at the Wayne
State University Press Web site.
The fall issues of Marvels
& Tales and Fabula,
by the way, are special issues devoted to the Arabian Nights
(based on papers from a symposium being held this September in Germany).
Edited by: Don at: 6/22/04 6:45 am
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(6/22/04 7:56 am)
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Re: Fairy Tales and Feminism/Arabian Nights
Thanks for the heads-up, Don. These sound great.
By the way, has anyone else here read The
Lost Girls by Laurie Fox (a contemporary adult novel inspired
by Peter Pan)? I'm about a third of the way into it and finding
it hard to sustain my interest. Should I keep on going? Is it worth
it in the end?
Edited by: Terri Windling at: 6/22/04 9:13 am
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Colleen
Unregistered User
(6/22/04 10:19 am)
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Lost Girls
Is "Lost
Girls" the one about Wendy Darling's descendants? I never
did finish that one; kept wanting to smack the protagonist and tell
her to stop whining. Perhaps I was just cross when I read it.
Colleen
(just a layperson's opinion, not a critic's!)
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(6/22/04 12:16 pm)
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Re: Lost Girls
Colleen, yep, that's how I've been feeling too. Glad to hear it's not just me!
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Helen
J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(6/22/04 1:05 pm)
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The Lost Girls
Dear Terri:
I actually reviewed this one a few months ago (p090.ezboard.com/fendicot...=4.topic);
my reaction then was “Fox does some fascinating things with the
sociological and psychological implications of the legend of Peter
Pan. Modern women, after all, do not do quite as well with Oedipal
complex’s enacted upon them in adolescence. Nor is the model of
the boy who would never grow up a successful formula for romance
thereafter: the Darling women seem cursed with men cast in the same
mold as the familial daemon. It is not until the birth of Wendy’s
daughter, however, that the harshest aspect of the dichotomy between
the legend and the reality manifests itself, in the form of mental
illness. Fox deals with the subtext of Barrie’s stories in fascinating
ways, from exploring the possibility of abuse at the hands of Hook
to the question of what, exactly, gives fairy dust its psychotropic
qualities, but the result is occasionally as schizophrenic as the
characters whom it describes. The Lost Girls is a fascinating, but
occasionally disturbing, read.” I think that I’ll stick by that
analysis - I liked Fox’s attempt to update the legend, and I thought
that her commentary upon the glorification of youth in the past
as opposed to in today's youth culture was incisive, but her characters
just weren’t sympathetic, and some of Wendy II’s flashbacks read
as though they'd benefit by the mood therapy which she luckily,
later, receives. Problem was, it left me in the mood for a dose
of the same. Just me …
Best,
Helen
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(6/22/04 4:45 pm)
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Re: The Lost Girls
Ack, I can't believe I'd forgotten that review! Sorry! Okay, I'm going to continue to plough my way through it. I'll let you know what I think when I'm done.
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(7/2/04 4:34 am)
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Jim Henson's The Storyteller fans can now complete their collection
with the DVD release of the Greek
Myths, coming in September. The Storyteller has been very popular
on SurLaLune, so I thought I'd pass the info along here, too.
Here's a link to it on Amazon.com:
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
This and some other new titles are also featured on the front page
of SurLaLune ( www.surlalunefairytales.com
)
HAH
Edited by: Heidi Anne Heiner at: 7/2/04 4:35 am
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