Fairy Tale Review, The White Issue

by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Julie Marie Wade (Contributor), Jack D. Zipes (Contributor)

Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that either addresses the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. The "FTR" is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, 'a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tales'. "Fairy Tale Review"'s first three issues - "The Blue Issue" (2005), "The Green Issue" (2006), and "The Violet Issue" (2007) - present contributions from nationally recognized authors such as Donna Tartt, Francine Prose, Lydia Millet, Marina Warner, Jack Zipes, Aimee Bender, and Rikki Ducornet.Stories from the first three issues have been noted or chosen for republication in "Best New American Writers and Best American Short Stories". Seven stories and seven poems so far have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. This fourth volume, "The White Issue", contains work by Ivy Alvarez, Philip D. Beidler, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Tony Friedhoff, Arielle Greenberg, Evan Harris, MC Hyland, Lesley Jenike, Kamila Lis, Ashley McWaters, Barbara Jane Reyes, Timothy Schaffert, Kurt Schwitters, and Kellie Wells.

Genres: Fairy Tales

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2009

About the author

Kate Bernheimer is the author of three novels and the story collection Horse, Flower, Bird, as well as children's books. Among other books, she edited the World Fantasy Award winning My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales and the forthcoming xo Orpheus: 50 New Myths.

Reviews

[H. Anne Stoj · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nice collection of really amazing short works. Beautiful images in Imantz Ziedonis's The Yellow Tale and The Blue Tale. Kellie Wells's The Rabbit Catcher of Kingdom Come might be my favorite in this issue. I don't ever remember liking The Pied Piper of Hamlin, the traditional version anyhow, though I've really enjoyed reworkings of it in short story and novel form with Tanith Lee and China Mieville coming to mind there. But this...I'm not sure, a different sort of creepiness to it.

[Mikayla K. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel that there are a lot of interesting and unique things that are going on in this book. The poetry was stunning and thought-provoking, and each poem had a different style and take on subject manner that’s fairly similar. I think for me, I wish I had given myself more time to read this (had to return it to my library soon) because you can’t really skim through these pieces. I would like to pick this one up again or pick up another Fairy Tale Review and really take my time with it.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not my favorite issue of the publication. The poetry was exceptional as always. I didn't enjoy some of the short stories that were in this issue as much as I have in the past.