Come out to the Harold Washington Library tomorrow evening, and hear Kate Bernheimer and Lydia Millet read from their modern fairy tale collections. Bernheimer, once a professor of mine, is an expert––and enthusiast––of all things Brother's Grimm. She founded Fairy Tale Review, a delightfully dark literary journal, she edited three anthologies, including the more recent My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, and she has a plethora of short stories, essays, novels and other words all swirling around once upon a time.
I've also had the pleasure of meeting Kate's dear friend, Lydia Millet, and she too enjoys the fairy-word. Watching these two women together is an event not to be missed. Hope to see you there!
Shoot! It looks as though the reading may be full :(
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