November 24th, 2009 / 5:59 pm
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Nice interview with Kate Bernheimer at Conjunctus: “The Great Gatsby is as much a fairy tale as Coraline. Sometimes the fantastical resides in the syntax. Sometimes it resides in a closet.”
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Man… can this lady talk about anything OTHER than fairytales? Not everything in the world is a fairytale…
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November 25th, 2009 / 11:59 amLydia Millet—
On the contrary, everything in the world is a fairy tale.
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My mom fucking loves fairy tales.
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maybe the day you all stop talking about your own cocks, & fairy tales are a much more worthwhile discussion. & nabokov said all great novels are fairy tales. in case you needed a male to back up kate bernheimer.
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Read Bernheimer’s beautiful and dreamily philosophical The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold. It will make you alive to how the patterns of human living are interwoven with fairy tale on top of fairy tale. Actualy, parts of fairy tales mixed with parts of fairy tales.
How could it be otherwise? A story is only called a “fairy tale” when it has certain universal, combinatoric quality. They are strangely flat to be sure, in a pre, or maybe post-psychological manner. That flatness is provocative, even threatening, in our hyper-individualized culture.
Also check out Bernheimer’s quarterly Fairy Tale Review. It’s always beautiful, always thought-provoking.
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